Amrina Ferdous
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Graduated from Washington State University with masters in Statistics. Enthusiastic and passionate in analyzing various types of data with statistical tools. Experienced user of SAS, R, and various other commercially available statistical data analysis tools. Expertise in:
Data Analysis and Modeling Survey Designing Biostatistics Professional Experience
Data Analyst
SESRC (Social and Economic Sciences Research Center), Washington State University
Designed & programmed survey using HTML, SQL server.
Extracted & analyzed data using SAS, R, SPSS.
Teaching Assistant
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Washington State University Jun 2016-present
Aug 2013-Dec 2015
Teaching Assistant for Stat 212: Introduction to Statistical Methods, Math 172: Calculus-II, and Math 201: Math- matics for Business and Economics
Trained students with necessary statistical tools in the computer lab and assisted with in-class problem solving
Graded homework problems, exam papers, projects, and gave feedback about students’ performance Skills
Data Processing, Modeling and Analysis: SAS, R, SQL, E-views, Minitab, SPSS, Maple, Stat Crunch, JMP,CATI
Document Processing: Microsoft Office
Reproducible software: R Markdown, Rkint
Publications
Book Chapter
1. Amrina Ferdous, Md. Abu Shahin, Md. Ayub Ali, “Time Series Model Building and Forecasting on Maximum Temperature Data for Rajshahi District in Bangladesh”, Computational Intelligence Techniques in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chapter 4, Springer, Feb 2014.
Conference
1. Amrina Ferdous, Nairanjana Dasgupta, “Predicting class membership using Imputation methods for clinical variable for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)”, Joint Statistical Meeting Conference, Chicago, USA, presented on 2nd Aug, 2016. 2. Amrina Ferdous, Md. Abu Shahin, Md. Ayub Ali, “Time Series Model Building and Forecasting on Maximum Temperature Data for Rajshahi District in Bangladesh”, International Conference on Data Mining for Bioinformatics Health, Agriculture and Environment, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Dec 2012.
Education
Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
M.S. in Statistics Cumulative GPA: 3.45/4
May 2016
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Adviser: Dr. Nairanjana Dasgupta, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, WSU. University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
M.Sc. in Satistics Cumulative GPA: 3.50/4
Dec 2012
University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
B.Sc. in Statistics Cumulative GPA: 3.28/4
Jun 2011
Masters project
Predicted class membership using imputation method for clinical variable for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
(Software: R and SAS, Methodology: Logistic regression) Graduate Class Projects
Analyzed differential gene expression in PRRSV (Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus) infected lymph tissue by Tag-Seq (Software: R, Methodology: Hierarchical clustering)
Analyzed multiple comparisons among the prices of five types of chocolates in four different stores (SAS, Randomized Completely Block Design)
Predicted relationship between new newspaper subscription and people’s age and sex (R, SAS, Logistic Regression)
Predicted relationship between age and high blood pressure (hypertension) (R, Linear Regression)
Examined how method of preparation or presentation affect the perceived tenderness of cooked turkey(SAS, Split Plot Design, Randomized Completely Block Design)
Analyzed multiple comparisons among the three species of onion in Walmart (SAS, Completely Random Design) Graduate Coursework
STAT 565: Analysis Microarray & Genomic Data
STAT 520: Statistical Analysis Qualitative Data
STAT 530: Applied Linear Models
STAT 533: Theory of Linear Models
STAT 573: Reliability
STAT 512: Analysis of Variance of
Designed Experiments
STAT 536: Statistical Computing
STAT 572: Quality Control
STAT 548: Statistical Theory I
STAT 549: Statistical Theory II
STAT 590: Statistical Consulting
Practicum
Awards
Tuition waiver with graduate assistantship from Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Washington State University (2013-2015)
NSICT Fellowship from Bangladesh Government Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology for excellence in master’s program (2012)
Bangladesh Education Board scholarship for excellence in Secondary School Certificate examination (2003- 2005)
Selected Workshops (attended)
Joint Statistical Meeting, Chicago, IL, 1-4 Aug 2016
Conference on Statistical Practice, San Diego, CA, 18-20 Feb 2016
Joint Statistical Meeting, Seattle, WA, 9-12 Aug 2015
Bioinformatics workshop-I, University of Rajshahi, 23-24 Mar 2012
International workshop in health statistics, University of Rajshahi, 20-21 Apr 2012
Digital signal and image processing, University of Rajshahi, 25-26 May 2012
Optimization, University of Rajshahi, 21-22 Sep 2012 Ferdous/Resume/Sep 2016 3
Affiliation
Senator, WSU student government body GPSA, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Member, American Statistical Association