There are varying estimates of asthma prevalence and burden in the published literature, and these have major limitations in terms of the analytical approach used and reproducibility. This PhD project aims to:
About me
I am a statistician and my area of specialisation is bio-statistics. I have completed a BSc and MSc in statistics with first class honours at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh and then completed an MSc in bio-statistics with distinction at the Hasselt University, Belgium under the Flemish Government Interuniversity Council Scholarship (VLIR-UOS) programme: 2011-2013. Before starting my PhD, I was involved in teaching statistics at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh.
My research interests include epidemiology and disease modelling, machine learning and natural language processing, study design in clinical trials, longitudinal data analysis, joint modelling, mixed models, Bayesian analysis, survival analysis, spatial statistics and time series analysis.
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Acknowledgements
My PhD is affiliated with the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR), and supported by the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine of The University of Edinburgh and the Farr Institute, UK.