Mohammad Jafari Jozani
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Assistant Professor

Office: 325 Machray Hall

Telephone: 204-272-1563

Research Interests

Bayesian statistics, statistical decision theory, ranked set sampling

Recent Publications

  • Amiri, S., Jafari Jozani, M. and Modarres, R. (2012). Resampling Unbalanced Ranked Set Samples. Technical Report.
  • Jafari Jozani, M. and Johnson, Brad C. (2012). Randomized Nomination Sampling in Finite Populations. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 142, 2103-2115.
  • Jafari Jozani, M., Marchand, É. and Parsian, A. (2012). Bayes and robust Bayesian estimation under a general class of balanced loss functions. Statistical Papers 53 (1), 51-60.
  • Jafari Jozani, M., Balakrishnan, N. and Davies, K. (2012). Some Pitman Closeness Properties Pertinent to Symmetric Populations. Technical Report.
  • Jafari Jozani, M., Davies, K. and Balakrishnan, N. (2012). Pitman Closeness Results Concerning Ranked Set Sampling. Technical Report.

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Biography

Mohammad joined the Department of Statistics as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2009. Mohammad's research has primarily been in Bayesian statistics and statistical decision theory. Recently he has begun to do research in the areas of ranked set sampling and image analysis.

Presentations, Seminars and Conferences

2011

  • Jafari Jozani, M. [speaker], Balakrishnan, N. and Davies, K.F. (2011). Some Pitman Closeness Properties Pertinent to Symmetric Populations,Statistics seminar, University of Manitoba, November, 2011.
  • Jafari Jozani, M. [speaker] and Mirkamali, S.J. (2011). Maxima Nomination Sampling with Application in Constructing Quality Control Charts for Attribute, SSC Annual Meeting, Wolfville, June 2011.
  • Jafari Jozani, M., and Johnson, B.C. [speaker] (2011). Randomized Minima-Maxima Nomination Sampling in Finite Populations, SSC Annual Meeting, Wolfville, June 2011.
  • Jafari Jozani, M., Leblanc, A. & Marchand, E. [speaker] (2011). On estimating a distribution function and the choice of the loss function. SSC Annual Meeting, Wolfville, June 2011.
  • Jafari Jozani, M. [speaker] and Johnson, B.C. (2011). Design Based Estimation for Ranked Set Sampling in Finite Populations. Statistics seminar, University of Manitoba, April, 2011.

2010

  • Jafari Jozani, M. [speaker] and Johnson, B.C. (2010). Design Based Estimation for Ranked Set Sampling in Finite Populations. Seminar Statistique, Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, December 2010.
  • Leblanc, A. [speaker] & Jafari Jozani, M. (2010). Minimax invariant estimation of continuous distribution functions. Fourth Annual PNRMS Meeting, Winnipeg, May 2010.
  • Jafari Jozani, M. (2010). Credibility Premium Analysis under Balanced Loss Functions, Statistics seminar, University of Manitoba, April 2010.
  • Leblanc, A. [speaker] & Jafari Jozani, M. (2010). Minimax invariant estimation of continuous distribution functions. Statistics seminar, University of Manitoba, March 2010.

2008

  • Estimation under Balanced Type Loss Functions. Department of Mathematics, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, CANADA, 13 May 2008.
  • Estimation and prediction under Balanced type loss functions with applications. Joint meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada and the Societe Francais de Statistique Montreal Seminar of Actuarial and Financial Mathematics, Ottawa, CANADA, 25–29 May 2008.
  • Estimation under Balanced type loss functions with applications in Credibility Theory . Montreal Seminar of Actuarial and Financial Mathematics, IMS, Montreal University, Montreal, CANADA, 16 May 2008.

2006

  • Sequential point estimation of a function of the Weibul l scale parameter with application in reliability. Proceeding of the 8th Iranian statistical conference, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. 104-113. In Persian

2005

  • An admissible minimax estimator of the scale parameter in the family of transformed chi-square distributions under weighted balanced loss function (WBLF). 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Sydney, Australia.

Supervision of highly qualified personnel

  • Elaheh Torkashvand, Ph.D., In Progress. (September 2011).
  • Mohammad Nourmohammadi, Ph.D., In Progress. (January 2010, co-advisor: Brad Johnson).
  • Armin Hatefi, Ph.D., In Progress. (September 2010, co-advisor: Alexandre Leblanc).
  • Sayed Jamal Mirkamali, M.Sc. thesis defended 2008, “Proportion estimation using ranked set sampling”, Allameh Tabatabaie University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Saeed Majidi, M.Sc. thesis defended 2008, “Ratio estimators using ranked set sampling”, Allameh Tabatabaie University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Negin Mahlooji, M.Sc. thesis defended 2006, “Sequential point estimation of the scale parameter”, Allameh Tabatabaie University, Tehran, Iran. (co-supervisor with Nader Nematolahi)

Research Funding

  • Discovery Grant, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada: "Decision theoretic inference in problems involving balanced loss functions, constraint parameter spaces and finite mixture models", 2010-2015.
  • Start-up Grant, University of Manitoba, 2010-2012.

Memberships

  1. Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
  2. American Statistical Association (ASA)
  3. Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
  4. International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Graduations

Congratulations to our May, 2012 graduates: Richard Gagnon (M.Sc.), Monica Sirski (Ph.D.), Jing Zhang (M.Sc.).

News

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Congratulations to our newly named Professors Emeriti: John Brewster and Smiley Cheng!