SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (mostly invited)

1. (Invited) Assessing process capability index for non-normal distributions, IISA conference, DeKalb, USA (2002) 2. Inference concerning quantile for left truncated and right censored data. SSC annual meeting (2002) 3. (Invited) Process capability index for non-normal distributions, University of Western Ontario (2002) 4. (Invited) Pooling component means: Making sense: or folly International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Osaka, Japan (2001) 5. (Keynote speaker) Improved Estimation. Seventh International Conference of Islamic Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS), Lahore, Pakistan (2001) 6. (Invited) Testing the homogeneity of process capability indices. Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan (2001) 7. (Invited) Simultaneous estimation of coefficients of variation. University of Tsukuba/University of Tokyo, Japan (2001)

     
  1. Invited seminar, Application of shrinkage estimation in analysis of reliability and life-testing models.  University of Waterloo (2000).
  2. Invited colloquium, Simultaneous estimation of correlation coefficients. University Laval, Quebec (2000).
  3. Invited speaker, Improved estimation of regression coefficients in censored Weibull and extreme value regression model.   Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability.  Bordeaux, France (2000).
  4. Invited Dicussant, Workshop on Data Analysis and Statistical Foundations,  University of Toronto (2000).
  5. An asymptotic approximation for the birthday problem.  Annual meeting of Statistical Society of Canada,  Ottawa (2000).
  6. The complete convergence rates of the bootstrap mean.  Annual meeting of Statistical Society of Canada,  Ottawa (2000).
  7. Four Invited lectures, Lahore University, Lahore, Pakistan (2000).
  8. Invited seminar, Application of shrinkage estimation in analysis of reliability and life-testing models. Universite Marne-la-Vallee, France (2000).
  9. Invited speaker, Improved estimation strategies in combining data from various sources.  The International Conference on Measurement and Multivariate Analysis.  Banff, Canada (2000).
  10. Invited speaker, Strong limit theorems for bootstrapped means.   Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability.  Bordeaux, France (2000).
  11. Invited seminar, Testing the homogeneity of process capability index.  Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba (2000).
  12. Invited address, Least squares, preliminary test and Stein-type estimation in general vector AR(p) models. Annual meeting of Statistical Society of Canada, Regina (1999).
  13. Invited seminar, To pool or not pool: Intraclass correlations coefficients. Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainsville, USA (1999).
  14. Invited Interdivisional Seminar, Combining data from di erent investigations. Statistics Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa (1999).
  15. Invited colloquium, . Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA (1999).
  16. Invited address,. Testing the homogeneity of process capability indices in k arbitrary populations. Presented at the International Conference on Applied Statistical Science, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA (1999).
  17. Construction of improved estimators of multinomial proportions. Presented at ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Washington D. C., USA (1999).
  18. Shrinkage estimation of regression coefficients in a regression model with censored data. Presented at the ENAR Spring Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (1999).
  19. Improved estimation of characteristic roots in principal analysis. Presented at the Tampere Matrix Workshop, Tampere, Finland (1999).
  20. Improved estimation of regression coefficients from censored data. 52nd Session of the International Statistical Institute, Helsinki, Finland (1999).
  21. Invited lecture presented at the International conference in reliability and survival analysis, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois, USA (1998)
  22. Invited lecture presented at the International conference organized by the International Indian Statistical Association, Hamilton (1998)
  23. Invited seminar, shrinkage estimation in exponential regression model with censored data. Department Mathematics and Statistics, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman (1998)
  24. Invited colloquium, Stein-like Shrinkage estimation: From past to present. Department Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1998)
  25. Invited colloquium, improved estimation of regression coefficients in an exponential regression model with censored data. Department Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario (1998)
  26. Invited lecture at Workshop on empirical Bayes and likelihood inference, Montreal (1997)
  27. Invited lecture at Workshop for research in Statistics and Probability, Ottawa (1997)
  28. Invited lecture presented at the International conference on combinatorial methods and applications to probability and statistics, Hamilton (1997)
  29. Invited lecture I:  presented at the International workshop on applied statistics, Malang, Indonesia. (1996)
  30. Invited lecture II: presented at the International workshop on applied statistics, Malang, Indonesia. (1996)
  31. Invited lectureI: presented at the Department of Statistics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysis, Malaysia (1996)
  32. Invited lectureII: presented at the Department of Statistics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysis, Malaysia (1996)
  33. Invited lecture at Fifth International Conference of ISOSS (1996), Indonesia
  34. Invited lecture, Malay University, Malaysia (1996)
  35. Invited lecture I: University of Karachi (1996)
  36. Invited lecture II: University of Karachi (1996)
  37. Invited talk, IASIO conference in honor of Professor C. R. Rao, Montreal (1996)
  38. Invited lecture at Fourth International Conference of ISOSS, Lahore, Pakistan (1994)
  39. Invited lecture series, University of Karachi (1993)
  40. Invited lecture at the International Conference on EnvironMetrics, Finland (1992)
  41. Invited lecture at the International Conference on EnvironMetrics, Madison (1991)
  42. Invited lecture, University of Karachi (1991)
  43. Invited lecture I at the Conference on EnvironMetrics Como, Italy (1990)
  44. Invited lecture II at the Conference on EnvironMetrics Como, Italy (1990)
  45. Invited lecture at Second International Conference of ISOSS, Johor Bahru, Malaysia (1990)
  46. Invited lecture at First International Conference of ISOSS, Lahore, Pakistan (1988)
  47. Asymptotic theory of simultaneous estimation of coefficients of variations. Presented at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in Pullman, Washington (1996)
  48. Using incomplete prior information in regression analysis. Presented at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in Pullman, Washington (with Bashirullah) (1996)
  49. Improved simultaneous estimation of intraclass correlation. Department Statistics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1996)
  50. Shrinkage estimation of intraclass correlation coefficients. Department Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (1996)
  51. Improved estimation in randomized response model. Presented at the joint meeting of Statistical Society of Canada and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Montreal (1995)
  52. Improved biased estimation in regression model. Presented at the fourth international workshop on matrix methods for statistics, Montreal (1995)
  53. Pre-test and shrinkage estimation in a randomized response model. University of Exeter, Exeter, England (1995)
  54. Randomized response surveys: touching the touchy questions. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina (1995)
  55. Large sample pooling procedure for correlation. Colloquium, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA (1993)
  56. Combining data sources in estimation. Presented at the International Conference on Establishments Surveys of the American Statistical Association, Bu alo, USA (1993)
  57. Shrinkage estimation in a randomized response model. Colloquium, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1993)
  58. Asymptotic simultaneous estimation of reliability functions. Colloquium, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1993)
  59. Improved estimation in a multivariate regression model. Presented at the annual meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Edmonton (1992)
  60. Shrinkage estimation of relative potency. Presented at the joint meeting of Biometrics Society and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Corvallis, USA (1992)
  61. Asymptotic simultaneous estimation of Poisson means. Presented at International Conference on Nonparametric Statistics & Related Topics, Ottawa, Canada (1991)
  62. Improved estimation for the component mean-vector in a 2p-variate normal distribution. Presented at Statistics Day, University of Regina (1990)
  63. Simultaneous asymptotic estimation of Poisson means. Presented at Inter-University Seminar, University of Saskatchewan (1990)
  64. Asymptotic discrete data analysis. Colloquium, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (1990)
  65. Shrinkage estimation of the binomial proportion. Colloquium, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan (1990)
  66.  Invited Colloquium, Faculty of Bussiness Admintration,  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (1989)
  67. Use of apriori information in the estimation of binomial proportion. Presented at 47th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Paris, France (1989)
  68. Invited Colloquium, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,&nb3p; University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario (1989)
  69. Invited Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,  Memorial University of New Foundland, ST. John,  Newfound (1989)
  70. Invited Colloquium, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,  Pomona State University,  Pomona, California USA (1989)
  71. Shrinkage estimation in simple multivariate normal regression model. Presented at International Conference on Recent Developments in Statistical data analysis and Inference, Nauchatel, Switzerland (1989)
  72. Invited Colloquium, Faculty of MAnagement Sciences,  St Mary University , Halifax,  Nova Scotia (1989)
  73. Teaching statistical consulting, computing and data analysis. Presented at a special session in the annual meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Victoria (1988)
  74. Estimation strategies for the intercept vector in a simple linear multivariate normal regression model. Presented in Institute of Mathematical Statistics meeting, Boston (1988)
  75. Pooling multivariate data. Invited Colloquium, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1988)
  76. On preliminary test and shrinkage estimation of the mean vector of a multivariate normal distribution in a two-sample problem. Presented in Institute of Mathematical Statistics meeting, Dallas (1987)