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Institute of Statistical Research and Training

ISRT, Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম of Deltin 7

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Tahmina Akter

Lecturer

Office: Room: 107, Ground floor of ISRT building
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Email: [email protected]

Education

Ph.D in Biostatistics, Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

B.Sc and M.Sc in Applied Statistics, ISRT, Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম of Deltin 7

 

Research Interests

Bio-statistics, Infectious Disease Modeling, Public Health, Survival Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Research Methodology and Social statistics, Statistical Inferential, Sampling methods

 

Publications
  • Akter T, Deardon R (2025). ‘Conditional logistic individual-level models of spatial infectious disease dynamics’. Infectious Disease Modelling, 10(1), pp.268-286.
  • Akter T, Deardon R (2023). ‘Variable screening methods in spatial infectious disease transmission models’. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology Journal, Vol (47).
  • Sutradhar I, Akter T, Hasan M, Das Gupta R, Joshi H, Haider MR, Sarker M, et al. (2020). ‘Nationally representative surveys show gradual shifting of overweight and obesity towards poor and less educated women of reproductive age in Nepal’. Journal of Biosocial Science.
  • Roy PK, Khan MHR, Akter T, Rahman MS (2019). ‘Exploring sociodemographic and geographical variations in prevalence of diabetes and hypertension in Bangladesh: Bayesian spatial analysis of national health survey data’. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 29(71-83).
  • Hasan M, Sutradhar I, Akter T, Das Gupta R, Joshi H, Haider MR, et al. (2018). ‘Prevalence and determinants of hypertension among adult population in Nepal: Data fromNepal Demographic and Health Survey 2016’. Plos One, 13(5).
  • Akter T, Sarker EB , Rahman MS (2018). ‘A Tutorial on GEE with Applications to Diabetes and Hypertension Data from a Complex Survey’. Journal of Biomedical Analytics, Vol 1(1).

Research Grants

  • Trends and Determinants of Common Non-communicable Diseases in Bangladesh: Evidence from Recent BDHS Studies (with Dr. Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan), UGC of Bangladesh, 2017-18.

Thesis

  • Comparison of Competing Risks Regression Models. Supervisor: Dr. A. H. M. Mahbub Latif, Professor
    Institute of Statistical Research and Training (I.S.R.T.), Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম of Deltin 7

Project

  • Factors Affecting Antenatal Visits among Ever-Married Women in Bangladesh. Supervisor: Md. Asaduzzaman, Associate Professor, Institute of Statistical Research and Training (I.S.R.T.), Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম of Deltin 7

Conference/Talk

  • “Comparison of Competing Risks Regression Models”, presented at Second International Conference on Theory and Applications of Statistics, 2015; organized by Deltin 7 Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম Statistics Department Alumni Association (DUSDAA), 27-29 December, 2015, Deltin 7, Bangladesh.

Scholarships and Awards

  • Eyes High International Doctoral Scholarship in the amount of $15000, year: May 2024 − April 2025.
  • Doctoral Completion Scholarship in the amount of $10000, year: Jan’ 2024 − Dec’ 2024.
  • Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship for Data-Enabled Innovation in the amount of $31000 (yearly), year: May 2020 − April 2023.
  • Eyes High Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship in the amount of $30000 (yearly), year: Sep’ 2019 − Aug’ 2023.
  • Dean’s Award 2013 under the Faculty of Science, Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম of Deltin 7 for the academic excellence in B.S. Honours Examination.
  • Scholarship for ‘outstanding performance in B.S. (Honors)’ from Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম of Deltin 7, 2013.
  • Undergraduate Scholarship on each academic year from Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম of Deltin 7 for the results in undergraduate level.

Courses Taught

  • Advanced Probability and Stochastic Processes
  • Programming with C/C++
  • Linear Algebra (as practical)

Research Students

  • Shaila Sharmin: “Model Validation and Classification Using Decision Tree and Logistic Regression Among Hypertensive Women in Bangladesh“
  • Rasel: “Generalized Estimating Equations : Identifying Factors of Morbidity of the Children Aged
    Under Five Years”