Kaushik Ghosh

 

 

Department of Mathematical Sciences

University of Nevada Las Vegas

 

 

Hello and welcome. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). My research interests are in Statistics and Biostatistics, including cancer incidence and mortality modeling, longitudinal data analysis, Bayesian computations, ranked set sampling and directional data.

 

Education:

 

á    Ph.D., Statistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

á    M.S., Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

á    B.S., Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

 

Employment:

 

á    Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UNLV; Fall 2007---present.

á    Prior academic appointments at UCSB, George Washington University and New Jersey Institute of Technology

 

Selected publications:

 

á    Ghosh, K. and Tiwari, R. C. (2008) Estimating the Distribution Function Using k-tuple Ranked Set Samples, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 929--949.

á    Ghosh, K. and Tiwari, R.C. (2007) Nonparametric and Semiparametric Bayesian Reliability Analysis in Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, Ruggeri, F. Kenett, R. and Faltin, F.W. (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp 1239--1248.

á    Ghosh, K. and Tiwari, R.C. (2007) Prediction of U.S. Cancer Mortality Counts using Semiparametric Bayesian Techniques, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102(477), 7--15.

á    George, B.J. and Ghosh, K. (2006) A Semiparametric Bayesian Model for Circular-Linear Regression, Communications in Statistics --- Simulation and Computation, 31(4), 911--923.

á    Zheng G., Ghosh K., Chen Z. and Li Z. (2006) Extreme Rank Selections for Linkage Analysis of Quantitative Trait Loci using Selected Sib-Pairs, Annals of Human Genetics, 70, 857--866.

 

Currently teaching:

 

á    Spring 2008: Applied Statistics for Engineers (STAT 463/663)

 

Contact information:

 

á    Room CBC-B406

á    Department of Mathematical Sciences

Box 454020

University of Nevada Las Vegas

4505 Maryland Parkway

Las Vegas, NV 89154-4020

á    Phone: 702-895-0392

á    Fax:     702-895-4343

á    Email: kaushik ÒdotÓ ghosh ÒatÓ unlv ÒdotÓ edu

 

Last updated January 30, 2008