Kaushik Ghosh

Hello
and
welcome.
I
am
an
Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at
University of
Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). My research interests are in Statistics and
Biostatistics, including disease trend modeling,
longitudinal
data analysis, Bayesian computations, ranked set sampling and
directional data.
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:
- Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, UNLV; Fall 2012---present.
- Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, UNLV; Fall 2007---Summer 2012.
- Prior academic
appointments at UCSB, George Washington University and New Jersey
Institute of
Technology.
Selected
publications:
- Kandhasmay, C. and Ghosh K. (2017) Relative risk for HIV in India -- An esimate using conditional auto-regressive models with Bayesian approach, Spatial and
Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 20, 27--34.
- Chacko M. and Ghosh K. (2016) Semi-parametric Bayesian Density Estimation Using Ranked Set Sample in the Presence of Ranking Error, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 23, 301--316.
- Hanson E., Roach C.J., Day K.J., Peters K.R., Bradley W.G., Ghosh K., Patton P.W., McMurray R.C. and Orrison W.W. (2013)
Assessment of the Tracer Delay Effect in Whole Brain Computed Tomography Perfusion: Results in Patients Without Known Neuroanatomical Abnormalities,
Journal of
Computer Assisted Tomography, 37(2),
212--221.
- Zhu L, Pickle L.W., Ghosh K., Naishadham D., Portier K., Chen H.-S., Kim H.-J., Zou Z., Cucinelli J., Kohler B., Edwards B.K., King J., Feuer E.J., and Jemal A. (2012)
Predicting US- and State-Level Cancer Counts for the Current Calendar Year. Part II: Evaluation of Spatiotemporal Projection Methods for Incidence,
Cancer
, 118,
1100--1109.
- Zhang H., Ghosh K. and Ghosh P. (2012)
Sampling Designs via a Multivariate Hypergeometric-dirichlet Process Model for a Multi-species Assemblage with Unknown Heterogeneity,
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
, 56(8),
2562--2573.
- Ghosh P., Ghosh K. and Tiwari R.C. (2011)
Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Data and Informative Dropout Time in the Presence of Multiple Changepoints
, Statistics in Medicine
, 30(6),
611--626.
- Ghosh K. (2010)
A New Nonparametric Test for Symmetry
, in Advances in Directional and Linear Statistics
, Wells M.T. and SenGupta A. (eds.), Springer, NY, pp.
69--83.
- 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 2018: STAT 463/ STA 663 (Applied Statistics for Engineers).
Office hours:
- Spring 2018: Mon, Wed 3:00-4:30 or 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 February 2, 2017