CURRICULUM VITAE GOLAM KIBRIA

1. GENERAL

1.1 Personal Information

Full Name: B. M. Golam Kibria

Mailing Address: Department of Statistics Florida International University University Park Campus Miami, FL 33199, USA

Phone, Fax and Email: Phone: (305) 348-1419 (Office)

Fax: (305) 348-6895 E-mail: kibriag@fiu.edu

1.2 Areas of Research Interests Applied Statistics; Bayesian Analysis; Biostatistics, Environmental Statistics; Distribution Theory; Pre-test and Shrinkage Estimation; Predictive Inference: Ridge Regression; Regression Analysis and Spatial Statistics. 1.3 Areas of Teaching Interests Applied Statistics; Biostatistics; Categorical Data Analysis; Data Analysis; Design of Experiment; Environmental Statistics; Estimation Theory; Mathematical Statistics; Multivariate Analysis; Non-Parametric Statistics; Regression Analysis; Quality Control; Sampling Technique; Statistical Inference; Statistics for Business and Economics; Statistics for Health Science; Statistics for Computer Science and Engineering; Statistics for non-science major. 1.4 Education

1. Ph. D. (Statistics), The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 1993-1997. Dissertation title was “Contributions to predictive inference for the multivariate linear models”

2. M. Sc. (Statistics), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1991-1993.

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1.5 Employment 1. Associate Professor: Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA.

From August 2006.

2. Assistant Professor: Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA. From August 2000 to August 2006.

3. Consultant: Xtec, Incorporated. 5775 Blue Lagoon Drive, Miami, Florida 33125: May to December 2001.

4. Assistant Professor: Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia,Vancouver: From July, 1998 to July, 2000.

5. Assistant Professor: Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada: From September 1997 to June1998.

6. Research Assistant: Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada: From January to August, 1997.

7. Teaching Assistant: Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada: From September 1993 to December 1996.

8. Teaching Assistant: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada: From January to April, 1993.

1.6 Other Appointments

1. Principle Statistician and a Research Faculty, Hurricane Loss Model Project funded by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation . From January 2006 to date.

2. Acting Chair, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, From December 22 2005 to January 2, 2006.

3. Internal Evaluator for the project “FIU Student Equity and Achievement in Mathematics and Science (FIU SEAMS)” sponsored by US DOE. October 2005 to August 2008.

4. Dissertation Advisor Status: Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA, since April 15, 2005.

5. Affiliated Faculty: Department of Environmental Studies, Florida International University, since June 11, 2004.

6. Affiliated Researcher: The Lehman Center for Transportation Research (LCTR), Florida International University, since April 2004.

7. Graduate Faculty: Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA, since December, 2003.

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1.7 Computer Packages Known (1) S Plus (2) SPSS (3) STATA (4) Minitab (5) JMP IN (6) Microsoft Excel (7) Latex/ Tex (8) Maple 2. PUBLICATIONS 2.1 Papers Appeared/Accepted in refereed Journals

1. Shakil, M., Kibria, B. M. G. and Chang, K-C (2008). Distributions of the product and ratio of Maxwell and Rayleigh random variables. To appear in Statistical Papers.

2. Peter J. Clarke, P. J., Babich, D, King, T. M and Kibria, B. M. G (2008). Analyzing

Clusters of Class Characteristics in OO Applications. To appear in Journal of Systems and Software.

3. Shakil, M and Kibria, B. M. G. (2008). A new Student t type distribution and its properties.

To appear in Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications.

4. Morales, J. A., Clarke, P. J., Deng, Y . and Kibria, B. M. G. (2008). Characterization of virus replication, Journal of Computer Virology, Springer-Verlag. To appear.

5. Nadarajah, S. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2007). Reliability modeling: Linear combination and

ratio of Exponential and Rayleigh. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 56 (1), 102-105.

6. Kibria, B.M.G. and Nadarajah, S. (2007). On fixed critical valuefor Preliminary test estimator. International Journal of Statistical Science- 6, 181-192.

7. Shakil, M. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2007). On the probability distribution of the ratio of

Maxwell and Rayleigh random variables. Special issue of the “Journal of Statistical Studies” in honor of Distinguished Research Professor A. K. Md. E. Saleh. 26, 85-95.

8. Shakil, M. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2007). On The Product of Maxwell and Rice Random

Variables. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods. 6 (1), 212- 218.

9. Shi, W. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2007). On some confidence intervals for estimating the mean of a skewed population. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 38 (3), 412--421.

10. Kibria, B. M. G. and Nadarajah, S. (2007). Shrinkage Estimation of a Mean Vector when the data are from two Multivariate Normal Populations. Journal of Statistical Theory and Application. 6(1), 61-81.

11. Nadarajah, S. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). On the exact distribution for the product and ratio of normal and t random variables. Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Vol. 58, Nos. 229-230, 77-92.

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12. Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). Applications of some improved Estimators in linear regression. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods. 5(2), 367-380.

13. Morales, J. A., Clarke, P. J., Deng, Y . and Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). Testing and Evaluating Virus Detectors for Handheld Devices. Journal in Computer Virology -Special Issue on Mobile Malware and Antimalware Technologies , 2 (2), 135-147.

14. Shakil, M. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). Exact Distribution of the Ratio of Gamma and Rayleigh Random Variables. Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operational Research. 2(2), 87-98.

15. Nadarajah, S. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). Drought models based on Burr XII variables. Applications Mathematicae, 33, 185-193.

16. Kibria, B. M. G. and Nadarajah, S. (2006). The predictive distribution for the het-eroscedastic multivariate linear model with elliptically contoured distributions. Journal of Statistical Research, 40(1), 35-43.

17. Kibria, B. M. G. and Joarder A. H. (2006). A Short Review of Multivariate t-Distribution. Journal of Statistical Research. 40(1), 59-72.

18. Shakil, M, Kibria, B. M. G. and Singh, J. N. (2006). Distribution of the ratio of Maxwell and Rice random variables. International Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Sciences, 1 (13), 623 -637.

19. Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). The Matric t Distribution and its Applications in Predictive Inference. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 97, (3), 785-795.

20. Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). Modified confidence intervals for the mean of the Asymmetric distribution. Pakistan Journal of Statistics, 22 (2), 109-120.

21. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2006). Optimum critical value for pre-test estimators. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 35 (2), 309-319.

22. Nadarajah, S. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2006) On the ratio of generalized Pareto random variables. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, 20, 206-212.

23. Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). Applications of some discrete regression models for count data. Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, 2 (1), 1-16.

24. Shakil, M., Shing, J. N. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2005). Some criterion for the least square regression plane. Varahmihit Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 5(2), 351-364.

25. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2005). Pooling multivariate data under W, LR, and LM tests, Statistical Papers, 47, 49-68.

26. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2005). Comparison between Han-Bancroft and Brook Methods to Determine the optimal Significance level for Pre-Test Estimator. Journal of Probability and Statistical Science, 3, 293-303.

27. Kibria, B.M.G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2004). Performance of Positive Rule Estimator in the Ill-Conditioned Gaussian Regression Model, Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin.

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55, 211-241.

28. Tabatabaey, S. M. M., Saleh, A. K. Md. E. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2004). Simultaneous Estimation of Regression Parameters With Spherically Symmetric Errors Under Possible Stochastic Constraints, International Journal of Statistical Science. 3, 1-20.

29. Kibria, B. M. G. (2004). On some modified t tests for testing the mean of a right skewed distribution. Journal of Statistical Theory and Application, 3, 247-257.

30. Kibria, B. M. G. (2004). Truncated Moments of the Reciprocal of a Noncentral F Variable. International Journal of Statistical Sciences, 3, 55-60.

31. Kibria, B. M. G. (2004). Conflict among the shrinkage estimators induced by W, LR and LM tests under a Student’s t regression model. Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, 33 (4), 411-433.

32. Tabatabaey, S. M. M., Saleh, A. K. Md. E. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2004). Estimation strategies for the parameters of the linear regression models under spherically symmetric distributions. Journal of Statistical Research. 38, 13-31.

33. Kibria, B. M. G. (2004). Performance of the shrinkage preliminary test ridge regression estimators based on the conflicting of W, LR and LM tests. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 74 (11), 793 -810.

34. Kibria, B. M. G. (2004). On some ridge regression estimators under possible stochastic constraint. Pakistan Journal of Statistics -Special issue in the honor of Professor Dr. Mir Masoom Ali, 20(1), 1-23.

35. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2004). Preliminary test ridge regression estimators with Student’s t errors and conflicting test-statistics, Metrika, 59(2), 105-124.

36. Thabane, L. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2003). The inverse Student-t Distribution and its Applications in Bayesian Prediction under the Inverse Normal Model. Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications. 2, 235-246.

37. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2003). Estimation of the Mean Vector of a Multivariate Normal Distribution under Various Test Statistics, Journal of Probability and Statistical Science, 1, 141-155.

38. Kibria, B. M. G. (2003). Robust Predictive Inference for the Multivariate Linear Models with Elliptically Contoured Distribution. Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 10(1), 11-24.

39. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2003). Effect of W, LR, and LM Tests on the Performance of Preliminary Test Ridge Regression Estimators. Journal of the Japan Statistical Society, 33(1), 119-136.

40. Kibria, B. M. G. (2003). Performance of some new ridge regression estimators. Com-munications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 32, 419-435.

41. Kibria, B. M. G. (2002). Simultaneous shrinkage estimation of the mean of a multivariate

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normal distribution. Journal of Statistical Research, 36, 29-44.

42. Kibria, B. M. G. (2002). Robust inference of the heteroscedastic multivariate linear models with multivariate students t errors. International Mathematics Journal, 2, 833-839.

43. Kibria, B. M. G., Sun, L., Zidek, J. V. and Nhu, L. (2002).Bayesian Spatial Prediction of Random Space-Time Fields With Application to Mapping PM2.5 Exposure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97, 112-124.

44. Kibria, B. M. G. and Naranjo, A. (2002). Testing the Mean of Skewed Distribution: Chen,s t2. Pakistan Journal of Statistics, 18 (2), 213-224.

45. Kibria, B. M. G. (2000). A note on Bayesian predictions for the linear regression model with elliptical error distribution. Journal of Statistical Research, 34, 179-185.

46. Lehana, T., Drekic, S. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2000). A note on the Generalized Gamma distribution. Special issue in the honor of Dr. A K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh and Dr. Emad Eldin A. A. Aly, Pakistan Journal of Statistics, 16, 169-180.

47. Kibria, B. M. G. and Haq, M. S. (2000). The multivariate linear model with matric T error variables. Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences, 4, 277-290.

48. Kibria, B. M. G. and Haq, M. S. (1999). Predictive inference for the elliptical linear model. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 68, 235-249.

49. Kibria, B. M. G. and Haq, M. S. (1999). The multivariate linear model with multivariate t and intra-class covariance structure, Statistical Paper, 40, 263-276.

50. Kibria, B. M. G. (1999). The prediction distribution for the heteroscedastic multivariate linear models. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Method, 28(10), 2477-2486.

51. Thabane, L. and Kibria, B. M. G. (1999). On the Generalized modified Power Bessel Distribution. Journal of Statistical Research, 33(1), 9 -22 (1999).

52. Kibria, B. M. G. and Haq, M. S. (1998). Marginal likelihood and prediction for the multivariate ARMA(1,1) linear models with multivariate t error distribution. Journal of Statistical Research. 32(1) 71-80.

53. Kibria, B. M. G. and Haq, M. S. (1997). Predictive inference for the linear and multivariate linear models with MA(1) error processes. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 26, 331-353.

54. Kibria, B. M. G. and Ahmed, S. E. (1997). Shrinkage estimation for the multicollinear observations in a regression model with multivariate t distributions. Journal of Statistical Research, 31 (1), 83-102.

55. Kibria, B. M. G. (1996). On shrinkage ridge regression estimators for restricted linear models with multivariate t disturbances. Students, 1 (3), 177-188.

56. Kibria, B. M. G. (1996).Prediction problems in regression analysis. Journal of Statistical Research., 30(1), 67-76.

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57. Kibria, B. M. G. (1996).On preliminary test ridge regression estimator for the restricted linear model with non-normal disturbances. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 25, 2349-2369.

58. Kibria, B. M. G. and Haq, M. S. (1996). A Shrinkage estimator for the restricted linear regression model: Ridge regression approach. Journal of Applied Statistical Science, 3, 301-316.

59. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (1993). Performance of shrinkage preliminary test estimator in regression analysis. Jahangirnagar Review. A 17, 133-148.

60. Saleh, A. K. Md. E. and Kibria, B. M. G. (1993). Performances of some new preliminary test ridge regression estimators and their properties. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 22, 2747-2764.

2.2 Papers Submitted for Publication and under consideration

There are about 8 papers have been submitted for publications in the journals as main and co-authors and several papers are under the current investigations.

2.3 Non-Refereed Publications

1. Kibria, B. M. G. (2008). Robust Predictive Inference for the Multivariate Linear Models

with Elliptically Contoured Error Distribution: Bayesian, Classical and Structural Approaches. Proceedings of The 4th Sino-International Symposium October, 2007 on Probability, Statistics, and Quantitative Management ICAQM/CDMS Taipei, Taiwan, ROC May 12, 2007 pp. 21-34.

2. Kibria, B. M. G. (2007). Bayes Linear Statistics: Theory and Methods by Michael Goldstein and David Wooff, Wiley, New York, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-01562-9 (hardback). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 171 (1), 316–316.

3. Kibria, B. M. G. (2007). Review on “Bayesian Statistics and Marketing, by P. E. Rossi, G. M. Allenby, and R. McCulloch, Technometrics, Vol. 49, No. 2, May 2007 pp.230.

4. Lehana, T and Kibria, B. M. G. (2007) . Bayesian prediction for the linear model with Equi-correlated responses: An application of the generalized multivariate modified bessel distribution. Festschrift, In honor of Distinguished Professor Mir Masoom Ali on the occasion of his retirement, May 18-19, 328-335.

5. Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). Review on ”Introduction to Statistics Through Resampling Methods and R/S-PLUS” by Phillip I Good, Wiley (2005), Statistical Papers, 48, 537-538.

6. Shi, W. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2005). Statistics with confidence: Comparison of some confidence intervals for the mean of a skewed population. Proceedings of the 3rd Sino-

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International Symposium on Probability, Statistics and Quantitative Management ICAQM, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, June 10, 2006, 121-134.

7. Kibria, B. M. G. and Joarder, A. H. (2006). On the Multivariate T-Distribution and Some of its Applications : Technical Reoprt No. 359, Dept of Mathematical Science, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

8. Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). Review on “Permutation, Parametric, and Bootstrap Tests of Hypothesis” Third Edition, by Phillip Good, Springer (2005), Statistical Papers, 47, 653-658.

9. Joarder, A. H. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). A Modest Introduction to Uncorrelated T-Model, Technical Reoprt No. 354, Dept of Mathematical Science, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.

10. Clarke, P. J., Babich, D., King, T. M. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2006). A Prediction Model for the Combination of Class Characteristics in Large OO Applications. Technical Report FIU-SCIS: 2006-05-01. School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University Miami, FL 33199, USA.

11. Kibria, B. M. G. (2005). The Applications of Matric t Distribution in Predictive Inference for a Multivariate Linear Model. Submitted for publication in JSM Proceedings 2005.

12. Kibria, B. M. G. (2005). A note on the distribution of future regression and SSP matrices for multivariate elliptical linear model. Proceedings of the second Sino-International Symposium on Probability, Statistics and Quantitative Management ICAQM, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, May, 2005, 181-188.

13. Kibria, B. M. G. (2005). A letter to the Editor. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 33, 235-236.

14. Kibria, B. M. G. (2004). Short life sketch of Professor M. Safiul Haq. International Journal of Statistical Science, 3, 1-2.

15. Kibria, B. M. G. (2004). Correction to “Model selection: Full Bayesian approach: Carlos Alberto de Braganca Pereira and Julio Michael Stern” Environmetrics. 15: 743”.

16. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2004). Comparison between Han-Bancroft and Brook Methods to Determine the optimal Significance level for Pre-Test Estimator. Technical Report, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (September 10, 2004).

17. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2004). Application of Some Improved Ridge Regression Estimators with Real Data. Proceedings of the first Sino-International Symposium on Probability, Statistics and Quantitative Management ICAQM, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, June 6, 2004, 61-72.

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18. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2004).Performance of Shrinkage Preliminary Test Ridge Regression Estimators based on the Conflicting W, LR and LM tests. Technical Report, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (March 29, 2004).

19. Kibria, B. M. G. (2002). Study Guide for Introduction to Statistics I, Pearson Custom Publishing, Boston, MA 02116 (SBN 0-536-80652-7).

20. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2004). Preliminary Test Ridge Regression Estimators with Student’s t Errors and Conflicting Test-Statistics. Technical Report, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (March 29, 2004).

21. Thabane, L. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2003). The inverse student-t distribution and its application in Bayesian prediction. Proceedings of the Eighth National Statistical Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 7-8, 71-79.

22. Kibria, B. M. G., Sun, L., Zidek, J. V. and Le, D. (2003). An application of Bayesian approach for backcasting and spatially predicting unmeasured multivariate random space-time fields. Proceedings of the Eighth National Statistical Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 7-8, 19-29.

23. Tabatabey, S. M. M., Saleh, A. K. Md. E. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2003) Estimation of regression parameters for the linear models with spherically symmetric distributions: Sub hypothesis restrictions. Technical Report, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (March 5, 2003).

24. Kibria, B. M. G. (2002). The predictive distributions of regression and sum of squares and products matrices for the multivariate elliptically contoured distributions. Technical Report, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (2002).

25. Thabane, L. and Kibria, B. M. G. (2002). The Inverse Student-t Distribution and its Applications in Bayesian Prediction Under the Inverse Normal Model: Predicting the Number Needed to Treat (NNT). Technical Report, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (2002).

26. Kibria, B. M. G. (2002). Shrinkage preliminary test estimation of the mean vector of a multivariate normal distribution under various test statistics. Technical Report, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (2002).

27. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2002). Conflict between PT ridge regression estimators induced by W, LR and LM tests under a regression model with Student’s t distribution. Technical Report Series of Laboratory for Research in Statistics and Probability, No. 369, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (2002).

28. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. E. (2001). Effect of W, LR, and LM Tests on the

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Performance of Preliminary Test Ridge Regression Estimators, Technical report, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (2001).

29. Kibria, B. M. G. (2001). Performance of some new ridge regression estimators. Technical report, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (2001).

30. Kibria, B. M. G., Sun, L., Zidek, J. V. and Nhu, L. (2000). A Bayesian approach to backcasting and spatially predicting unmeasured multivariate random space-time fields with application to PM2.5, TR# 193, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2000).

31. Kibria, B. M. G. (2000). Multivariate Bayesian spatial interpolation using Gaussian-Generalized inverted Wishart Model, TR# 191, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Abstract has appeared in IMS Bulletin, 2000t-22.

32. Ahkong, J., Kibria, B. M. G. and Petkau, J (2000). Air pollution and human health: A study based on emergency room visits data from Prince George, British Columbia, TR# 190, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. (coauthor: )

33. Kibria, B. M. G. and Haq, M. S. (1996). Predictive inference for the linear model with errors having an elliptical distributions. TR # 96-5, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

34. Kibria, B. M. G. and Haq, M. S. (1996). Predictive inference for the linear and multi-variate linear models with ARMA(1,1) process. TR# 96-3, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

35. Kibria, B. M. G. and Haq, M. S. (1995).Predictive inference for the linear model with multivariate normal error and MA(1) process. TR# 95-13, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

36. Kibria, B. M. G. (1995). Shrinkage preliminary test ridge regression estimators for linear restrictions in a regression model with non-normal disturbances. TR # 95-06, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. Abstract has appeared in IMS Bulletin, 95t-38, Vol 24, No. 5, page 500.

37. Kibria, B. M. G. (1994). Shrinkage preliminary test estimator and ridge regression, TR # 94-09, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

38. Kibria, B. M. G. and Saleh, A. K. Md. (1992). On some ridge regression estimators. TR# RM 528, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA. Abstract has appeared in IMS Bulletin, 92t-34, Vol 21, No. 5, page 535.

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3. RESEARCH 3.1 Research Experiences

1. Completed a project title on “Preliminary test Estimators for the Parameters of the Exponential and Pareto Distributions for Censored Data”. Funded by the College of Arts and Science of Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (Summer 2007).

2. Completed a project title on “Selection of best Regression model for count data”. Funded by the College of Arts and Science of Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (Summer 2005).

3. Completed a project title on “Conflict Among the Estimators induced by W,LR and LM Tests under a Student t Regression Model”. Funded by the College of Arts and Science of Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (Summer 2003).

4. Completed a project title on “Performance of the shrinkage preliminary test ridge regression estimators based on the conflicting of W, LR and LM tests”. Funded by the College of Arts and Science of Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (Summer 2002).

5. Completed a summer projecton “Performance of some new ridge regression estimators”. Funded by College of Arts and Science of Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (Summer 2001).

6. Completed a project (jointly with Professor James V. Zidek and Dr. Li Sun) on ”Mapping Philadelphia’s Hourly PM2.5 Field, 1992-93, at the University of British Columbia. In this project, we have developed a Bayesian multivariate generalized inverted Wishart model and used the model to analysis the data from Philadelphia, USA (June 2000).

7. Completed a project (jointly with Professor A. John Petkau) on “Air pollution and human health: A study based on emergency room visits data from Prince George, British Columbia”, at the statistical consulting and research laboratory (SCARL) of the University of British Columbia. Here we fitted a Poisson regression model for the emergency room visit data (December 2001).

8. For the STAT LAB project in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at The University of Western Ontario, I was involved with analysis of data on metal ion from tree samples for a faculty member from the Department of Chemistry. The project was very successful and earned the STAT LAB award (June 1997).

3.2 Funding/ Research Grants

1. 2007 Summer Research Award $4204.30, funded for summer research by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL.

2. 2005 Faculty Development Award, FIU, funded for summer research by the Dean of the

College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL.

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3. 2003 summer research fund $3500.00, funded by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL.

4. 2002 summer research fund $3600.00, funded by the Dean of the College of Arts and

Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL.

5. 2001 summer research fund $3600.00, funded by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL.

4. TEACHING

4.1 Teaching Experiences

1. Associate Professor & Assistant Professor: Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. Taught the following courses: (1) Sta 2023: Statistics for Business and Economics (2) Sta 2122: Introduction to Statistics I (3) Sta 3033: Introduction to Probability for Engineering and Computer Sc. (4) Sta 3111: Statistics I (5) Sta 3905: Independent Study (6) Sta 4664: Statistical Quality Control (7) Sta 5105L: SPSS Lab (8) Sta 5107: Intermediate Statistics II (8) Sta 5666: Advance Statistical Quality Control (9) Sta 6166: Statistical Methods in Research, I (10) Sta 6244: Data analysisI (11) Sta 6247: Data analysis II and (12) Sta 6505: Categorical Data Analysis.

2. Assistant Professor: Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Taught the following courses: (1) Stat 251: Introduction to prob-ability and its application (2) Stat 306: Regression Analysis (3) Stat 460: Statistical InferenceI (Estimation theory) (4) Stat 302: Introduction to Probability(5) Stat 335: Statistics in Quality Assurance (6) Stat 534: Experimental Design and Quality Im-provement (7) Stat 200: Elementary Statistics for Application (8) Stat 203: Statistical Methods

3. Assistant Professor: Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada: Taught the following courses: (1) Stat 514: Survey Sampling (2) Stat 305: Applied nonparametric Methods (3) Stat 306: Statistical Quality Control (4) Stat 303: Applied Survey Sampling.

4.2 Involvement with Ph. D. Thesis Supervision

1. Jointly (with Dr. Albert Gan) supervised Elio R. Espino, a Ph. D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, USA. His thesis title is “Investigation of the causes of serious injury and fatal crashes: An analysis using econometric Models” (2005). Elio has been selected as the Outstanding Ph.D. Student for Spring 2005 by the College of Engineering, FIU.

2. Jointly (with Dr. Albert Gan) supervised Javier S. Gonzalez, Ph. D. student in the Department

of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, USA. His thesis title is “Effects of roadway geometric features on run-off-road crashes on the Florida

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State highway system” (2004).

4.3 Involvement with M. Sc. Thesis Supervision (currently supervising)

1. Almonte A. Cheryl is working on “Small sample confidence intervals for the mean of a positively skewed distribution”.

2. Gisela Muniz is working on “Comparison of some ridge regression estimators under

different conditions” 4.4 Involvement in Ph. D. Thesis Committee

1. Member of Ph. D. thesis committee (2005) of Suresh Allu title on “Transportation Engineering”, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis is supervising by Professor Sylvan C. Jolibois.

2. Member of the Ph. D. thesis committee (2005) of Elbermawy Ayman title on “Trans-portation Engineering”, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis is supervising by Professor Sylvan C. Jolibois and Professor L. David Shen.

3. Member of Ph. D. thesis committee (2006) of Morales Jose Andre, Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis has been supervised by Professor Yi Deng and Dr. Peter J. Clarke.

4. Member of the Ph. D. thesis committee (2004) of Cassandra Quave title on “Change point problem”, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Bradley Bennett.

5. Member of Ph.D. thesis committee (2005) of Yuanyuan Peng, Department of Economics, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis has been completed under the supervision of Professor Peter Thompson.

4.5 Involvement in M. Sc. Thesis Committee

1. Member of the M. Sc. thesis committee (2007) of Feng Miao, Department of Statistics,

Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis is supervised by Dr. Zhenmin Chen.

2. Member of the M. Sc. thesis committee (2006) of Wei Shi, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis is supervised by Professor Jie Mi.

3. Member of the M. Sc. thesis committee (2006) of Shengru Guo, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis is supervised by Professor Jie Mi.

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4. Member of the M. Sc. thesis committee (2005) of Jin Xia, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis is supervised by Professor Jie Mi.

5. Member of the M. Sc. thesis committee (2005) of Dongming Chen, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis is supervised by Dr. Zhenmin Chen.

6. Member of the M. Sc. thesis committee (2003) of M. Shakil, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis is supervisedby Dr. Hassan Zahedi.

7. Member of the M. Sc. thesis committee (2003) of Randall Miller, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis is supervised by Dr. D. Thomakos.

8. Member of the M. Sc. thesis committee (2002) of Arlene Narnajo, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA. The thesis is supervised by Professor Jie Mi.

4.6 External Thesis Examiner

1. External Assessor of the Masters thesis entitled “Application of the multinomial logic model in the transportation system” by Ms. Mr Makwela, School of Computational and Mathematical Sciences. University of Limpopo, Sovenga, South Africa. August 2007.

2. External Examiner of the M.Phi. thesis title on “Comparison of Student’s t, John-son’s t1, Chen’s t2 Statistics based on Burr XII positively skewed distribution” by Mr. Ijaz Hussain, National College of Business administration and Economic, Lahore, Pakistan, April-May 2005. The thesis is supervised by Professor Dr. Munir Ahmad.

3. External Examiner of the Ph. D. thesis title on “Predictive inference for certain life testing models” by Mr. Hafiz Khan, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. April-June, 2003. The thesis is supervised by Professor M. Safiul Haq.

4.7 Developed Statistics Courses

1. Developed (jointly) a graduate course on “Introduction to Time Series Analysis” for the Department of Statistics at the Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.

2. Developed (jointly) a graduate course on “Statistics for Environmental Sciences” for the

Department of Statistics at the Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.

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5. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 5.1 Editorial Board Memberships

1. Overseas Managing Editor: Journal of Statistical Research. Since January 2007.

2. Coordinating Editor: Journal of Probability and Statistical Science. Since August 2006.

3. Associate Editor: Journal of Probability and Statistical Science. From November 2002 to August 2006.

4. Member of the Editorial Board: Pakistan Journal of Statistics. Since January 2005.

5. Member of the Editorial Board: International Journal of Statistical Science. Since 2005.

6. Member of the Editorial Board: Pakistan Journal of Statistics & Operation Research. Since March 2006.

7. Member of the Editorial Board: Journal of Statistical Studies. Since 2005.

8. Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews. Since November 2002.

9. Was actively involved with the International Journal of Statistical Science. Felicitation Issue in honor of Professor M. Safiul Haq, Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (Vol 3 December 2004).

5.2 ASA Chapter Memberships

1. President: The South Florida Chapter of ASA (January to December 2007).

2. Vice President: The South Florida Chapter of ASA (January to December 2006).

3. Treasurer: The South Florida Chapter of ASA (January to December 2005).

4. Elected Secretary: The South Florida Chapter of ASA (January to December 2004).

5.3 Committee Services

1. Member of Graduate Committee, Department of Statistics, Florida International University: From September 2005.

2. Member of Equipment/Budget Committee, Department of Statistics, Florida International University: From September 2005.

3. Member of Undergraduate Advisor Committee, Departmentof Statistics, Florida International University: From September 2004 to present.

4. Chair: Student assessment committee, Department of Statistics, Florida International University: From April 2001 to present.

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5. Member: Student assessment committee, Department of Statistics, Florida International University: From September 2000 to April 2001.

6. Member: Student recruitment committee, Department of Statistics, Florida International University: From April 2001 to September 2004.

7. Web Master, Department of Statistics, Florida International University: From April 2001 to November 2004.

8. Course Coordinator: For Sta 2023 in Summer B, 2002.

9. Member of the Dissertation Advisor Status committee. February 2008

5.4 Reviewed Papers for Journals Reviewed several papers for the following 29 deferent international Biostatistical, Engineering, Mathematical, Quality Control, and Statistical journals: 1. Accident Analysis and Prevention (7) 2. Agricultural Economics (1) 3. BMC Medical Research Methodology (1) 4. Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin (2) 5. Communications in Statistics–Simulation and Computation (3) 6. Communications in Statistics–Theory and Method (5) 7. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology (2) 8. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (1) 9. Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics (1) 10. International Journal of Statistical Science (IJSS) (5) 11. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (1) 12. Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences (2) 13. Journal of Applied Probablity and Statistics (2) 14. Journal of Multivariate Analysis (JMVA) (2) 15. Journal of Statistics (2) 16. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (1) 17. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (3) 18. Journal of Statistical Research (6) 19. Journal of Inequalities and Applications (1) 20. Journal of Statistical Studies (4) 21. Journal of Probability and Statistical Science (10) 22. Mathematical and computer modeling (2) 23. Pakistan Journal of Statistics (4) 24. Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operational Research (1) 25. Quality Technology and Quantitative Management (1) 26. Statistics and Probability letters (3) 27. Statistical Papers (5) 28. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment (1) 29. Test (2)

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5.5 Books Review

1. Bayes Linear Statistics: Theory and Methods by Michael Goldstein and David Wooff, Wiley, New York, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-01562-9 (hardback),

2. Bayesian Statistics and Marketing” by P. E. Rossi, G. M. Allenby and R. McCulloch, Wiley (2006).

3. Permutation, Parametric and Bottstrap Tests of Hypotheses, Third Edition, by P. I Good. Springer, New York, ISBN 0-387-20279-X.

4. Statistics: A Problem Solving Approach by Stephen Kokoska, W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers.

5. Review and Accuracy Check of the text “Probability and Statistics with integrated software routine by Ronald Deep. Elsevier Science”.

6. Basic Statistics: Introduction to Statistics Using MegaStat and Excelby J. B. Orris, McGraw-Hill.

7. Elementary Statistics: Astep by step approach, 6th edition by Allan Bluman, McGraw-Hill.

8. Statistics, Ninth Edition by J. T. McClave and T. Sincich. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.

5.6 Member of the Professional Organizations

1. Elected member of International Statistical Institute (ISI).

2. Statistical Society of Canada, Canada.

3. American Statistical Association, USA.

4. Bangladesh Statistical Association, Bangladesh (Life member).

5.7 External Referees

1. Acting as the external reviewer for a candidate for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

2. External reviewer for a candidate for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in Statistics at the Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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6. CONFERENCE/ SEMINARS 6.1 Papers Presented

1. (Invited speaker) Robust Predictive Inference for the Multivariate Linear Models with Elliptically Contoured Distribution using the Bayesian, Classical and Structural Approaches. Presented at the meeting of the South Florida Chapter of ASA, December 06, 2007.

2. (Invited speaker), On Some t and Bootstrap types Confidence Intervals and their Performance. Presented at the Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 17, 2006.

3. (Invited speaker), Confidence interval Estimation of the Mean for a Skewed Population. Presented at the Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 25, 2006.

4. (Invited speaker), On some ridge regression estimators and their applications. Presented at the Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, July 24, 2006.

5. 21.(Invited speaker), Matric t distribution and its applications in the predictive inference for multivariate elliptically contoured error models. Presented at the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, July 19, 2006.

6. 20.(Invited speaker), Conflict among the shrinkage estimators induced by W, LR and LM

tests when the error of the regression model follow a Students t Distribution. Presented at the Department of Statistics, Calcutta University, July 18, 2006.

7. (Invited speaker), On some modified t types confidence intervals for the mean of the skewed distribution. Presented at the Department of Statistics and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University,Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, July 13, 2006.

8. (Invited speaker), Performance of shrinkage ridge regression estimator based on W, LR, and LM tests and under a Student’s t regression model. Presented at the Department of Statistics and Information Science,Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, July 13, 2006.

9. Invited speaker, Improved ridge regression estimators: Theory and Application. De-partment of Industrial Engineering & Management, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, July 12, 2006.

10. Invited speaker, The predictive distributions of the future response and regression matrrices under the multivariate elliptically contoured error distributions. Institute of Statistical Science, Acadmia Sinica, July 07, 2006.

11. Chair of a Session:Anew look at old tests (Biometric Section, WNAR), Joint Statistical Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA August 7 to 11, 2005.

12. The applications of Matric t Distribution in predictive Inference for a Multivariate Linear Model. Presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA August 7

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to 11, 2005.

13. On some improved estimators for the ill-conditioned Gaussian regression models. Pre-sented at the Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199. February 27, 2004.

14. The predictive distributions of regression and sum of squares and products matrices for the multivariate elliptically contoured error distributions. International workshop on Bayesian data analysis, Universityof California, Santa Cruz, August 7-10, 2003.

15. 11.(Invited speaker) Multivariate Bayesian spatial interpolation using Gaussian-Generalized Inverted Wishart Model. Presented at the South Florida Chapter of the American Statistical Association, January 31, 2003.

16. Bayesian Spatial prediction of random space-time fields with application to Mapping PM2.5

Exposure. Presented at the Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 9, 2003.

17. (Invited speaker) A Bayesian approach to Backcasting and Spatially predicting unmeasured

multivariate random space-time fields with application to PM2.5. Presented at the Eighth national statistical conference organized by Bangladesh Statistical Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 7-8, 2003.

18. (Invited speaker) The inverse Student-t distribution and its application in Bayesian prediction

under the inverse normal model predicting the number needed to treat (NNT). Presented at the Eighth national statistical conference organized by Bangladesh Sta-tistical Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 7-8, 2003.

19. Effect of W, LR, and LM Tests on the Performance of Preliminary Test Ridge Regres-sion

Estimators. Presented at the annual meeting of the statistical society of Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, May 26 to 29, 2002.

20. Predictive inference for the elliptical linear model. Presented at the Universityof British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October 27, 1998 and at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, November 19, 1998.

21. The multivariate linear model with matric T error variables. Presented at the annual meeting of the statistical society of Canada, Sherbrooke, Quebec, May 31 to June 3, 1998.’

22. Contribution to predictive inference for the multivariate linear models. Presented in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, August 25, 1997.

23. (Invited speaker) Performances of some new preliminary test ridge regression estimators and their properties. Presented in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at the Universityof Waterloo, Ontario, May 26, 1994.

24. On various ridge regression estimators and their properties. Presented in the Depart-ment of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, July 22, 1992.

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25. Sampling experiments on the studentized F-type tests of the analysis of groups of ran-domized block design in presence of heterogeneous errors variances: A Monte Carlostudy. Presented at the one day seminar organized by the Bangladesh Statistical As-sociation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 10, 1991.

6.2 Panel Memebers

1. Statistics Mentoring Conference, Florida International University, Miami, FL

33199, April 13, 2007.

2. On the Road to Tenure " A College of Arts & Sciences Workshop, Friday, April 13, 10 am to 12:00 noon

6.3 Conferences/ Meeting Attended

1. Joint Statistical Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA August 7 to 11, 2005.

2. International workshop on Bayesian data analysis, University of California, Santa Cruz, August 7-10, 2003. T

3. The South Florida Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, January 31, 2003.

4. The Eighth national statistical conference organized by Bangladesh Statistical Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 7-8, 2003.

5. The annual meeting of the statistical society of Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, May 26 to 29, 2002.

6. Pacific Northwest Statistics Meeting. The University of British Columbia, April 7th 2000.

7. PIMS workshop in Smoothing Applications, The Universityof British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 23-25, 1999.

8. The 25th annual meeting of the statistical societyof Canada, Sherbrooke, Quebec, May 31 to June 3, 1998.

9. The 24th annual meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Universityof waterloo, June 2-5, 1996.

10. Joint Statistical meeting, August 14 to 18, 1995, Toronto, Canada.

11. Bangladesh Statistical Association Annual Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 4-5, 1990.

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6.4 Organize of a Conference/Session:

1. One of the organizers for one day Statistics Mentoring Conference at Florida International University on April 13, 2007

2. One of the organizers for one day Conference in Statistical Methods at Florida

International University, March 28, 2008 7. AWARDS, HONOURS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

1. Elected Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. 2. Who's Who in Sciences Academia, 2004

3. Special 2006-2007 Merit Increase, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199.

4. 2005 Chapter Service Recognition Award in recognition of outstanding and devoted service to the South Florida Chapter of American Statistical Association. Presented at the 165th Annual Meeting, JSM 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

5. Special 2003-2004 Merit Increase, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199.

6. Special 2002-2003 Merit Increase, Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199.

7. 1997 Graduate Research Fellowship, awarded to achievers of excellent research accomplishments as a Ph.D. students in their final year, The University of Western Ontario.

8. 1997 Special University Scholarship, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

9. 1993-1996 Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship, awarded at The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

10. 1995 UWO Stat Lab Award, for submitting the best project in applied statistics among the graduate students in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at The University of Western Ontario.

11. 1991-1993 Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship, awarded at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

12. 1991-1992 Aga Khan Foundation Scholarship, awarded at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

13. 1986 Chancellor Award, awarded by the President, People’s republic of Bangladesh.

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