Dream and Reality
Mohammed Nasser
Professor and Chairman
Department of Statistics
Rajshahi
University
1
2
Acknowledgement
Prof. K.M.
Hossain
(1930
-
1999)
his colleagues, staff and students
3
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
6
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
9
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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
11
Research
area of
our department
Human
Growth
and Human Morphology
Nonlinear programming
Order Statistics
Earthquake
Prediction Modeling
12
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
18
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
.
24
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
.
25
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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