Rashid, Mamunur, Ph.D. - Faculty Bio

Mathematical Sciences

Professor of Mathematical Sciences

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Statistics (2008), Bowling Green State University , OH
• M.A. in Mathematical Statistics (2004), Ball State University , IN 
• M.S. in Statistics (1999), University of Dhaka , Bangladesh
• B.S. in Statistics (1997),  University of Dhaka , Bangladesh

COURSES TAUGHT

• MATH 348: Statistical Computing
• MATH 341: Statistical Model Analysis
• MATH 268: Data Science
• MATH 247: Mathematical Statistics
• MATH 184: Data Visualization with RStudio
• MATH 141: Statistics for Professionals

PUBLICATIONS

R/RStudio packages:

• SDPrism2D: Visualizing the Standard Deviation as the Size of a Prism ((with H. Nguyen, T .Nguyen , J. Sarkar). R package version 0.1.0. (2022). https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SDPrism2D/index.html

• SPOUSE: Scatter Plots Over-Viewed Using Summer Ellipses (with S. Phuyal, J. Sarkar). R package version 0.1.0. (2022). https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SPOUSE/index.html 

• quadraticSD: Visualing the Standard Deviation (SD) Using a Quadratic Curve (with S. Phuyal, J. Sarkar). R package version 0.1.0. (2022) https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=quadraticSD 

• GIplot: The R Gaussian Interval Plot Package (with S. Phuyal, J. Sarkar). R package version 0.1.0. (2021). https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=GIplot, 2021. 

• IVYplot: Produces an IVY Plot (Similar to Dot Plot) with/without Frequencies (with T.  Nguyen, T., J. Sarkar), R package version 0.1.0.(2021). https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=IVYplot 

• EuclideanSD: An Euclidean View of Center and Spread (with R. Bhattacharjee, S. Phuyal, J. Sarkar). R package version 0.1.0.(2021). https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=EuclideanSD 

• shutterplot: The R Shutter Plot Package (with S. Phuyal and J. Sarkar), R package version 0.1.0. (2021). https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=shutterplot

Research Articles:

• Adverse childhood experiences and association with poorer health and health-harming behaviours in adulthood among Americans (with M. Islam and M. Rashid). Child: Care, Health Develoment,  49:943–954., 2023. 

• A Can Lover Learns to Optimize (with  A. Phuong Do and J. Sarkar).  Journal of Probability and Statistical Science,  21(1), 118-132, 2023.

• Ranking and Visualizing Clusters of the US States by Adversity Childhood Experiences (with A. Phuong Do, J. Sarkar and M. Shifa Rashid). International Journal of Statistical Sciences , 23(1), 2023.

• Fair Allocation Using an Unfair Randomizer (with J. Sarkar). Blackboard, Issue 5, 33-53, 2023, https://www.mtai.org.in/bulletin/

• Visualizing Bivariate Statistics Using Ellipses Over a Scatter Plot (with J. Sarkar). Journal of Probability and Statistical Science , 20(1), 150-165, 2022.

• Mathematical Musings on the External Anatomy of the Novel Coronavirus. Part 4: Part 3: Models of n-Cov (with J. Sarkar). Resonance - Journal of Science Education, 27(10), 1719-1730, 2022.

• Mathematical Musings on the External Anatomy of the Novel Coronavirus. Part 3: Spherical Triangles (with J. Sarkar). Resonance - Journal of Science Education , 29(9), 1597–1606, 2022. 

• Mathematical Musings on the External Anatomy of the Novel Coronavirus. Part 2: Chasing After Quasi-Symmetry (with J. Sarkar). Resonance -  Journal of Science Education , 27(5), 855–866, 2022.

• Mathematical Musings on the External Anatomy of the Novel Coronavirus. Part 1: The Overall Shape of the n-CoV (with J. Sarkar). Resonance - Journal of Science Education , 27(4), 609–622, 2022.

• Estimating the Parameters of a Simple Linear Regression Model Without Using Differential Calculus (with J. Sarkar). Journal of Probability and Statistical Science , 20(1), 191-203, 2022. 

• SD Prism: Visualizing the Standard Deviation as the Size of a Prism Using R/RStudio ((with H. Nguyen, T .Nguyen , J. Sarkar), Student Research . 47. https://scholarship.depauw.edu/studentresearchother/47, 2022.

• Frequent mental distress among adults in the United States and its association with socio-demographic characteristics, unhealthy lifestyle, and chronic physical health status (with M. Islam, A. Li, N. Shifa). Journal of Public Health and Development. 20(1), 146-162, 2022.

• Visualizing the Centre of Gravity Using the (Empirical) Cumulative Distribution Functions (with J. Sarkar). International Journal of Statistical Sciences , 21(2), 19-43, 2021.

• Visualizing Bivariate Data: What’s Your Point of View? (with J. Sarkar). Journal of Probability and Statistical Science , 19(1), 83-95, 2021.

•  Two Regression Lines Suffice to Determine r2 and r (with J. Sarkar). Educational Research Quarterly , 45(2), 21-30, 2021. 

• Depicting Bivariate Relationship with a Gaussian Ellipse (with J. Sarkar). Statistics and Applications , 19(2), 77-87, 2021. 

• shutterplot: An R Package to Display All Summary Statistics of a Simple Linear Regression Model (with Phuyal, S., Sarkar, J.). Student Research . https://scholarship.depauw.edu/studentresearchother/40, 2021. 

• GIplot: An R Package for Visualizing the Summary Statistics of a Quantitative Variable (with Phuyal, S., Sarkar, J.). Student Research . https://scholarship.depauw.edu/studentresearchother/41, 2021. 

• IVY Plot: Enhancing a Dot Plot by Representing Observations as Leaflets. Student Research (with Phuyal, S., Sarkar, J.). Student Research . https://scholarship.depauw.edu/studentresearchother/43, 2021.  

• IVY Plot and Gaussian Interval Plot (with J. Sarkar). Teaching Statistics - An International Journal for Statistics and Data Science Teaching , 1-6, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679639, 2021. 

• Self-rated health status, functional difficulties in health domains and non-communicable diseases in Oman: Evidence from the World Health Survey in Oman (with M. Islam and A. Hadhrami). International Research Journal of Public and Environmental Health , 8 (1), 8-19, 2021. 

• Visualizing the mean and the standard deviation using R/RStudio Shiny package (R. Hufnagel, Z. Chen, and J. Sarkar). In the ICTCM proceedings , The 32nd Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, 2020. https://www.pearson.com/us/about/news-events/events/ictcm-archive-2020.html 

• Guess the Mean: Which Method is Better? (with J. Sarkar). Journal of Proabbility and Statistical Sciences , 18(2), 63-176, 2000.

• Shutter Plot: A Visual Display of Summary Statistics over a Scatter Plot (with J. Sarkar). International Journal of Statistical Sciences , 20(2), 99-116, 2020. 

• Pattern of health behavior and its association with self-rated health: evidence from the 2018 behavioral risk factor surveillance system in the United States (with L. Nguyen, M. Islam), Student Research . 5, 2020. https://scholarship.depauw.edu/studentresearchother/5/ 

• Cantelli-Type Inequalities Viewed Geometrically (with J. Sarkar). Journal of Probability and Statistical Science , 18(1), 67-86, 2020. 

• Euclidean plane geometry suffices to visualize the standard deviation (with J. Sarkar). The Mathematics Student , 88(3-4), 2019. 

• Visualizing the Mode of a Set of Numbers (with J. Sarkar). Journal of Probability and Statistical Science , 17(2), 227-237, 2019. 

• Have you seen the standard deviation? (with J. Sarkar). Nepalese Journal of Statistics , 3, 1-10, 2019. 

• Portraying Standard Deviation via Revolution (with J. Sarkar). Journal of Probability and Statistical Science, 17(1), 109-119, 2019. 

• Visualizing the Analysis of Variance (with J. Sarkar). Journal of the Society for Application of Statistics in Agriculture and Allied Sciences , 3(1), 1-11, 2018. 

• Cyber Mentoring in an Online Introductory Statistics Course (with J. Sarkar). Educational Research Quarterly , 41(3), 25-38, 2018. 

• Visualizing the Mean and the Spread of a Random Variable (with J. Sarkar). Journal of Propagations in Probability and Statistics , 17(2), 59-70, 2017. 

• Visualizing Mean, Mean Deviation and Standard Deviation of a Continuous Random Variable (with J. Sarkar). In JSM Proceedings , Statistical Education Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 82-89, 2017. 

• Visualizing the Sample Standard Deviation (with J. Sarkar),  Educational Research Quarterly , 40(4), 45-60, 2017. 

• Eine geometrische Sicht auf das arithmetische Mittel (with J. Sarkar). Stochastik in der Schule , 37(2), 14-16, 2017. (In German) 

• Failure of Care Acquisition: Identifying Risk Factors in American Health Disparities (with N. Downing). Student research-other. 2, 2017. https://scholarship.depauw.edu/studentresearchother/2 

• An Application of TOPSIS Method to Rank the US States Based on Recent Toxic Release of Priority Chemicals (with Kaiyan Cai), International Journal of Environmental Sciences , 7(4), 270-279, 2017. 

• Visualizing Mean, Median, Mean Deviation and Standard Deviation of a Set of Numbers (with J. Sarkar). The American Statistician , 70(3), 304-312, 2016. 

• A geometric view of the mean of a set of numbers (with J. Sarkar). Teaching Statistics - An International Journal for Teachers , 38(3), 2016. 

• A Two-Dimensional Visualization of the Standard Deviation (with J. Sarkar). Journal of Propagations in Probability and Statistics , 16(1), 13-21, 2016. 

• Data Integration Techniques in Agricultural Sciences (with B.K. Sinha). Journal of the Society for Application of Statistics in Agriculture and Allied Sciences , 1(1), 5-10, 2016. 

• An Application of TOPSIS Method to Rank the Instructors Based on Students' Performances, In JSM Proceedings , Statistical Computing Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, pp. 2554-2560, 2016. 

• Multinomial Hybrid Logistic Regression Models Under Case-Control Study. In Proceedings ,  The 5th International Conference of IMBIC on Mathematical Sciences for Advancement of Science and Technology. Kolkata, India, December 18-20, 2011. 

• Monte Carlo Evaluation of Consistency and Normality of Dichotomous and Polytomous Logistic Regression Models (with N. Shifa). In Proceedings , The 2011 Hawaii University International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering. Honolulu, Hawaii, June 13-15, 2011. 

• Consistency of the Likelihood Estimator in the Dichotomous Logistic Regression Model: A Different Approach (with N. Shifa). Journal of Statistics , Vol 16: 1-11, 2009. 

• Generalization of the Hybrid Logistic Model Under Case-Control Sampling Design. Journal of Korean Data & Information Science Society . 19(1): 361-373, 2008. 

• Inference on Logistic Regression Model. Ph.D. Research. Ohio Link ETD (2008). 

• Adolescent Pregnancy and Child Health in Bangladesh (with M. Mazharul Islam). Dhaka University Journal of Science , 54(1): 75-80, 2006. 

• Determinants of Unintended Pregnancy in Bangladesh (with M. Mazharul Islam). Dhaka University Journal of Science , 53(2): 151-160, 2005. 

• Effect of Infant Immunization on Childhood Mortality in Rural Bangladesh: Analysis of Health and Demographic Surveillance Data (with Robert F Breiman, Peter Kim Streatfield, Maureen Phelan, Naima Shifa, Mohammed Yunus). Lancet , 364: 2204- 2211, 2004. 

• Determinants of Unintended Pregnancy Among Ever-Married Women in Bangladesh (with M. Mazharul Islam). The Journal of Family Welfare , 50(2): 40-47, 2004.

• Fertility Behaviour of Married Adolescents in Bangladesh (with M. Mazharul Islam). Demography India , 32(1): 37-52, 2004.