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Shakhawat Hossain

Associate Professor


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Contact Information

Department:

Mathematics and Statistics

Fields:

  • Statistics

Areas of Expertise:

  • ALASSO
  • James-Stein Shrinkage and Pretest Methods
  • LASSO
  • Linear and Generalized Linear Mixed Models
  • Longitudinal Data Analysis
  • SCAD
  • Survival Analysis and Event History

Languages Spoken:

  • English

Available To:

  • Write articles

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Dr. Shakhawat Hossain is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV. Hossain received his master's degree in statistics from the University of Alberta in 2002, and PhD in statistics from the University of Windsor in 2008.

Prior to joining to ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Alabama A & M University and a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta from 2008-2010. Hossain has experience analyzing Canadian health administrative, outpatient and inpatient databases.

His research interests include: James-Stein type shrinkage and pretest methods; model selection methods using LASSO, adaptive LASSO, and SCAD methods; longitudinal data analysis; application of statistics in health services research; and survival data analysis.


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