Kaushik Ghosh

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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.

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Education:

• Ph.D., Statistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
• M.S., Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
• B.S., Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

Employment:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UNLV; Fall 2007---present.
• Prior academic appointments at UCSB, George Washington University and New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Selected publications:

• Ghosh, K. and Tiwari, R. C. (2009) A Unified Approach to Variations of Ranked Set Sampling With Applications, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 21(4), 471--485.
• Jammalamadaka, S.R., Siddiqi, M.A. and Ghosh, K. (2009) Analysis of Microtubule DynamicsUsing Growth Curve Models, Journal of Applied Statistics, 36(6), 621--631.
  
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Teaching:

• Spring 2010: Time Series Analysis (STA 750)

Office hours:

• Spring 2010: T, R 2:30-3:30 and by appt.
  

Contact information:

• Office: SEB 3132
• Address: Department of Mathematical Sciences

           Box 454020

           University of Nevada Las Vegas

           4505 Maryland Parkway

           Las Vegas, NV 89154-4020

• Phone: 702-895-0392
• Fax: 702-895-4343
• Email: kaushik dot ghosh at unlv dot edu

Last updated January 20, 2010