Associate Professor

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(On leave Jan 1 – June 30, 2012)

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Biography

Saumen Mandal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics. He received Ph.D. (Statistics) degree from the University of Glasgow, U.K., and M.Sc. (Statistics) and B.Sc. Honours (Statistics) degrees from the University of Calcutta, India. During his doctoral research at the University of Glasgow, he received the ORS (Overseas Research Scholarship) Award from the Council of Vice Chancellors and Principals (CVCP), London, U.K. Saumen was ranked first (First Class First) in M.Sc. (Statistics) at the University of Calcutta. His areas of research interest include optimal regression design, constrained optimization, optimal response-adaptive design, balanced incomplete block design, goodness-of-fit tests and linear models. He received numerous awards including the Dr. and Mrs. H.H. Saunderson Award for excellence in teaching, Merit Awards in teaching and research, Teaching Recognition Award 3 years in a row from the University of Manitoba. Saumen holds a P.Stat. designation from the Statistical Society of Canada.

Recent Publications

Mandal, S., Ghosh, D.K. and Bagui, S.C. (2012). Robustness of a class of variance balanced designs against the loss of one or two blocks. Utilitas Mathematica. Accepted. In Press.

Mandal, S. (2011). Optimal Regression Design. In International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, (Editor: Lovric, M.), Part 15, 1023-1025. Springer.

Biswas, A., Mandal, S. and Bhattacharya, R. (2011). Multi-treatment optimal response-adaptive designs for phase III clinical trials. Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, 40, 33-44.

Mandal, S. (2011). Construction of approximate optimal regression designs. Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications. 10, 229-243.

Appadoo, S.S., Thavaneswaran, A. and Mandal, S. (2011). “RCA Model with Quadratic GARCH Innovation Distribution”. Applied Mathematics Letters. Accepted. In Press.

Mandal, S. (2011). Contribution to a discussion on “What does the mean mean?” by N.N. Watier, C. Lamontagne and S. Chartier, Journal of Statistics Education, 19, 1-20. Discussion appeared in Statistical Society of Canada Liaison, 25, 33-34.

Biswas, A. and Mandal, S. (2010). Descriptive measures for nominal categorical variables. Statistics and Probability Letters, 80, 982-989.

Biswas, A. and Mandal, S. (2010). Optimal allocation proportion for a two-treatment clinical trial having correlated binomial responses. Advances in Model-Oriented Design and Analysis - mODa 9. (Editors: Giovagnoli, A., Atkinson, A.C. and Torsney, B., Co-editor: May, C.), 41-48. Physica-Verlag.

Biswas, A. and Mandal, S. (2009). Contribution to discussion on 'A Hybrid Selection and Testing Procedure with Curtailment for Comparative Clinical Trials' by Elena M. Buzaianu and Pinyuen Chen. Sequential Analysis, 28, 21-25.

Mandal, S., Ghosh, D.K., Sharma, R. and Bagui, S.C. (2008). “A complete class of balanced incomplete block designs b (7, 35, 15, 3, 5)”. Statistics and Probability Letters, 78 (18), 3338-3343.

Mandal, S., Ghosh, D.K., Chhug, S. and Bagui, S.C. (2008). “Diallel crosses with block sizes three”. Trends in Applied Statistics Research (Editor: Ahsanullah, M.), Chapter 8, 81-93. Nova Science Publishers, New York.

Thannippara, A., Joseph, O.C., Ghosh, D.K., Bagui, S.C. and Mandal, S. (2008). “E-Optimal Group Divisible (GD) Designs”. Journal of Statistical Studies, 27, 51-56.

Mandal, S. and Samanta, M. (2007). “A unified approach to efficient estimation in simple linear regression”, Sankhya, 69 (4), 635-647.

Biswas, A. and Mandal, S. (2007). “Optimal three-treatment response-adaptive designs for phase III clinical trials with binary responses”. Advances in Model-Oriented Design and Analysis - MODA8 (Editors: Lopez-Fidalgo, J., Rodriguez-Diaz, J. M. & Torsney, B.), 33-40. Psysica-Verlag.

Thannippara, A., Kurian, B., Ghosh, D.K., Bagui, S.C. and Mandal, S. (2007). “Hypercubic designs and applications”. Statistical Papers, 48 (3), 503-508.

Mandal, S. and Torsney, B. (2006). “Construction of optimal designs using a clustering approach”, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136 (3), 1120-1134.

Mandal, S., Ghosh, D.K. and Bagui, S.C. (2006). “Nested partially balanced incomplete block designs”. Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications, 5 (1), 41-52.

Mandal, S. and Samanta, M. (2006). “O-BLUE and minimum MSE linear estimator of the location parameter of an exponential distribution with known coefficient of variation”. Advances and Applications in Statistics, 6 (2), 121-128.

Torsney, B. and Mandal, S. (2006). “Two classes of multiplicative algorithms for constructing optimizing distributions”. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 51 (3), 1591-1601.

Mandal, S. and Samanta, M. (2006). “A large sample approximation of the O-BLUE of a location parameter”. Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications. 5 (4), 343-350.

Mandal, S., Ghosh, D.K., Chhug, S. and Bagui, S.C. (2006). “Diallel crosses with block sizes three”. Journal of Applied Statistical Science, 15 (2), 215-227.

Mandal, S., Torsney, B. and Carriere, K.C. (2005). “Constructing optimal designs with constraints”, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 128 (2), 609-621.

Biswas, A. and Mandal, S. (2004). “Optimal adaptive designs in phase III clinical trials for continuous responses with covariates”. Advances in Model-Oriented Design and Analysis - MODA7 (Editors: Bucchianico, A.D., Lauter, H., Wynn, H.P.), 51-59*.*Psysica-Verlag.

Torsney, B. and Mandal, S. (2004). “Multiplicative algorithms for constructing optimizing distributions : Further developments”. Advances in Model-Oriented Design and Analysis - MODA7 (Editors: Bucchianico, A.D., Lauter, H., Wynn, H.P.), 163-171*.*Psysica-Verlag.

Mandal, S. (2003). “Improving convergence rates of a class of algorithms”. Electronic notes in Discrete Mathematics, 15, 121-126. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15710653)

Torsney, B. and Mandal, S. (2001). “Construction of constrained optimal designs”, Optimum Design 2000, Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, 51, 141-152. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Mandal, S. and Torsney, B. (2000). “Algorithms for the construction of optimizing distributions”, Communications in Statistics - Theory & Methods, 29 (5-6), 1219-1231.

Non-Refereed Contributions

Mandal, S., Ghosh, D.K. and Bagui, S.C. (2004). “Nested partially balanced incomplete block designs”. Technical Report Series of the Dept of Statistics, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Mandal, S. (2003). “Improving convergence rates of a class of algorithms for constructing optimizing distributions”. Technical Report Series of the Dept of Statistics, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Mandal, S. and Carriere, K.C. (2002). “Constructing optimal designs with constraints”. Technical Report Series of the Dept of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada.

Mandal, S. and Torsney, B. (2000). “Maximum likelihood estimation under the hypothesis of marginal homogeneity in a square contingency table”. Technical Report Series of the Dept of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK.

Mandal, S. and Torsney, B. (2000). A class of algorithms for the constructions of optimal designs, Technical Report Series of the Dept of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK.

Mandal, S. (1998). Power of Tukey’s Test for no interaction in case of two-way classification, A communication with Titterington, D.M., Dept of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK.