Shakhawat Hossain
Associate Professor
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Winnipeg
Canada
Biography
Dr. Md Shakhawat Hossain received his Masters in Statistics from the University of Alberta in 2002 and Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Windsor in 2008. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Alabama A & M University. Before then he completed Post-Doctoral Fellow (2008-2010) in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta. Recently he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Dr. Hossain has extensive experience in analyzing Canadian health administrative databases. His research interests include the following areas: 1). Statistical shrinkage models and variable selection via the James-Stein type shrinkage, LASSO, Adaptive LASSO, and SCAD methods, 2) Longitudinal studies, 3) Application of statistics in Health services Research.
Research Interest
Health services/outcome research, Survival analysis and event history,Model selection by using James-Stein shrinkage, LASSO, ALASSO, and SCAD, Longitudinal data analysis, and Linear and generalized linear mixed models.
