pptx - Department of Statistics | Rajshahi University

Dream and Reality

Mohammed Nasser

Professor and Chairman

Department of Statistics

Rajshahi

University

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Acknowledgement

Prof. K.M.
Hossain
(1930
-
1999)

his colleagues, staff and students

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Acknowledgement

Qazi

Motahar

Hossain

1897
-
1981


T
he pioneer of statistics in Bangladesh

“
A good mathematician may not be a good statistician but
a good statistician must be good mathematician
”

Acknowledgement


P.C.
Mahalanobis

(
1893
-
1972)


T
he pioneer of statistics in
Asia


We are deeply indebted to

•
Our life
-
long

well
-
wisher,
Professor B.K.
Sinha

, ISI,
Kolkata. ( retired)

•
The world top most biostatistician,
Professor P.K.
Sen
,
University of North Carolina.

•
Eminent bio
-
informatician

Professor
Kohei
.
Akazawa

from
Nigita

University, Japan .

•
Stephen P.
Luby
, Professor, Infectious Diseases and
Geographic Medicine,

Stanford Univ., USA.

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Our Dream



To bring back the rich cultural educational
heritage of
Shompur

Môhabihar

( 781
-

13
th

century)


To build a statistical center of international
standard in Bangladesh



To have collaboration with with other
departments as well as universities/institutes.



To produce some world class scientists like
Silvodro
,
Atish

Dipankar
,
Jagadish

Chandra
Basu
,
Megnad

Shaha

etc



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A Bird View
Department of Statistics

•
Established in 1961

•
31 teachers ( at present 25)

•
22
office
staff

•
The present enrolment of the student in the
undergraduate classes is about
400

•
Apart from offering B.Sc. Honours and
M.Sc. degrees in Statistics, the department
also conducts research for higher studies
leading to M. Phil. and Ph. D. degrees
.

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Major Achievements of Our
Department before HEQEP

•
The Department has its own seminar library with
a large number of Textbooks, Journals, and
Scientific
Literature

•
A
sophisticated computer
unit
with 100 computers
and other electronics
appliances.

•
Two
international conferences were organized
. In
the last decade

The department publishes an annual journal named
International Journal of Statistical Sciences

(IJSS).
( 11 issues)





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Major Achievements of Our
Department before HEQEP

•
The

department

has

an

association

of

its

own,

named

“
Parishankan

Samity
”

•
Recently,

the

alumni

of

this

department

have

formed

a

Statistics

Alumni

Association

in

Dhaka

to

incorporate

all

ex
-
statistics

student

of

Rajshahi

University

from

all

over

Bangladesh

and

also

from

abroad

to

promote

academic,

research

and

all

other

activities

in

the

field

of

statistics
.


•
For

the

last

15

years

this

department

has

been

keping

relation

with

Indian

Statistical

Institute,

Kolkata



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Major Achievements of Our
Department before HEQEP

•
We

built

research

link

with




Kyoto

Gakuen

University,

Japan

and

The

University

of

Electro
-
Communication,

Tokyo,

Japan




University

of

M
alaya


University

of

Putra

Malaysia



ICDDR,B



Research areas of our department


Anthropometric
Statistics


Bayesian Inference



Bio
-
statistics


Bioinformatics



Bootstrap
techniques



Computer Programming &
Simulation



Demography


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Research
area of
our department




Human
Growth


and Human Morphology



Nonlinear programming



Order Statistics




Earthquake
Prediction Modeling


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Research area of our department




Reliability


Robust
Statistics


Sampling techniques


Social
and Educational Statistics



Stochastic Modeling


Statistical
Inference


Statistical Data Mining


Environmental Statistics



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Activities
after

HEQEP

•
Activities

of

HEQEP

started

in

the

beginning

of

2011

in

the

Department

of

statistics,

with

vow

to

enhance

Capacity

Building

For

Teaching
-
Learning

Of

Statistical

Data

Mining

For

Agriculture
,

and

thus

to

lay

down

the

spring
-

board

to

jump

in

area

of

world

class

research

on

Statistical

Data

Mining

with

a

group

of

researchers

not

only

from

our

dept
.

but

also

from

other

departments

from

RU

and

other

national
-
international

universities/institutes
..


Health

And

Environment

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Activities after HEQEP

•
Firstly

the

department

formed

a

self
-
assessment

committee,

then

i
nter
-
Department

expert

committee

consisting

of

experts

from

different

disciplines

like

Agricultural

Science,

Computer

Science,

Mathematics,

Environmental

Science,

Life

Science,

Business

Studies

etc
.

of

this

university
.

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Activities

after HEQEP

A

website

“
http
:
//www
.
statru
.
org
”

was

launched

at

very

beginning

of

2011
,

which

added

a

great

milestone

to

our

department
.


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Activities after HEQEP

Honors

syllabus

was

updated

with

including

geometry,

statistical

programming

and

Modern

statistical

research

area

like

Data

mining

Bioinformatics

etc
.


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Activities
after

HEQEP

Five

training

for

enhancing

the

quality

of

our

teachers

,students

and

staff

have

been

completed
.


Prof
Dr.
Raquib

Ahmed

is delivering his lecture on GIS Training
Programme

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Activities

after HEQEP

•
We have completed
57 weekly
seminars

•

10 national and 2 international
workshops

•
5
training
programmes


•
6
student workshops


•
95
percent of planned
infrastructural
development
have been completed
.

•
Preparations
to host an
International Conference
2012
on
Statistical Data Mining for
Bioinformatics,

Health, Agriculture and
Environment

along with few more workshops
are going in full
swing

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Activities after HEQEP

57

weekly

seminar

have

been

completed

of

different

fields

by

the

expert

of

varies

universities

of

home

and

abroad
.


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Activities after HEQEP

Prof. in Emeritus Dr. Mir
Masum

Ali
from Ball State University, USA

delivering his article

on
"
Use, Abuse and Applications of Statistics
"

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Activities after HEQEP

A scene of Group

discussion on the
workshop


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Activities after HEQEP


Prof
.

Dr
.

Kohei

Akazawa
,

Niigata

university,

Japan

visited

the

Department

for

two

weeks

and

delivered

four

lectures

on

Survival

Analysis
.




Prof
.

Dr
.

Koynoygi
,

Japan

visited

this

department

and

delivered

a

lecture

on

Health

Statistics
.


Dr
.

Pinakpani

Pal
,

ISI,

Kolkata
,


Dr
.

A
.

B
.

M
.

Shawkat

Ali,

Central

Queensland

University,

Australia


Dr
.

Masahiro

Sugimoto,

Kyoto

University,

Japan


Dr
.

AHM

Rahmatullah

Imon
,

Ball

State

University,

USA

Visited

the

Department

and

delivered

their

important

Lectures
.

Prof
Akazawa

is
delivering his lecture

Visiting professors of the department of statistics

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Activities after HEQEP

A

monograph

research

on

demography

by

Prof
.

Dr
.

Samad

Abedin

has

been

published

in

national

and

international

journal
.

Chairman

of

our

Department

and

prominent

professor

Dr
.

Mir

Masum

Ali

formally

uncovered

this

monograph

on

international

workshop
.

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Activities after HEQEP

The

World

statistics

day

first

time

was

observed

by

department

with

the

theme

“
Service,

Integrity,

and

Professionalism
”
.

To

familiar

the

necessity

of

statistics

in

society

the

department

organized

many

programmes

with

a

colorful

rally,

seminar

etc
.

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Activities after HEQEP

A

multimedia

documentary

on

The

Sundarbans

made

by

a

group

of

students

was

presented

for

making

environmental

consciousness

about

world

largest

mangrove

forest

to

the

audience
.

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Activities after HEQEP

An

academic

exhibition

of

the

faculty

members

was

staged

in

our

Department

where

the

researcher

present

their

research

poster

.
Former

professor

Hosnaara

hossain
,

Prof
.

Dr
.

Mir

Masum

Ali,

and

Prof
.

Dr
.

Samad

Abedin

Deeply

observed

this

exhibition

and

marking
.



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Prof
Hosneara

Hossain

is
visiting the academic exhibition.

Activities after HEQEP

Collaborative

work

with

ICDDR,B

has

been

functioning
.

Already

we

have

been

able

to

organize

some

collaborative

activities

for

sharing

knowledge

and

experience
.

Even

two

or

more

specialist

visits

our

Department

and

delivered

some

training

programme
.

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Activities after HEQEP

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Infrastructural development

Picture: Computer unit of the Department of Statistics, University of
Rajshahi


Activities after HEQEP

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Infrastructural development

Picture: Chairman’s room of the Department of Statistics, University of
Rajshahi

Activities after HEQEP

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Infrastructural development

Picture: Office of the Visiting Professor.

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Future Plan

To obtain research funds to improve our
research groups

To strengthen collaborative research

To have active relation with government
–
nongoverment

agencies, private firms,
research institute collaborative research

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Thanks