Ph.D, 2009, Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
M.S., 2004, Mathematics, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
M.S., 2003, Statistics, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
B.S., 1996, Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Statistical Methods:

• Longitudinal data analysis 
• Frailty model for survival data
• Joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data
• Semiparametric methods for longitudinal data
• Nuisance parameters in statistical inference
• Analysis of high-throughput data

American Statistical Association
International Biometric Society Eastern Northern American Region (IBS-ENAR)

EPBI 485: Likelihood Theory & Applications
EPBI 443: Multivariate and high dimensional data

Sattar, A., Weissfeld, L. and Molenberghs, G. (2011). Analysis of non-ignorable missing and left-censored longitudinal data using a weighted random effects tobit model. Statistics in Medicine, DOI: 10.1002/sim.4344.

Greco, C., Li, T., Sattar, A., Kao, A.H., Danchenko, N., Edmundowicz, D., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Tracy, R.P. Kuller, L., Manzi, S.(2011). “Association between Depression and Vascular Disease in SLE”. The Journal of Rheumatology (accepted).

Liu, C.C., Kao, A.H., Hawkins, D.M., Manzi, S., Sattar, A., Wilson, N., and Ahearn, J.M. (2009). Lymphocyte-bound complement activation products as biomarkers for diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus. Clinical and Translational Science, 2(4): 300-308.

Greco, C., Kao, A.H., Sattar, A., Edmundowicz, D., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Tracy, R.P. and Kuller, L.H. (2009). Association between depression and coronary artery calcification in women with systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology, 48(5):576-581.

Mehta, N., Uchino, K., Fakhran, S., Sattar, M.A., Branstetter, B.F., Au, K., Navratil, J.S., Paul, B., Lee M., Gallagher, K.M., Manzi, S., Ahearn, J. and Kao, A.H. (2008). “Platelet C4d is associated with acute ischemic stroke and stroke severity”. Stroke, 39, 3236-3241.

Nostrand, J.V.D., Morris, P.A. and Sattar, M.A. (2007). “The use of Hydroxylapatite to reduce the toxicity of Ni and U to Burkholderia Cepacia PR1301”. Environmental Science and Technology, 41, 1877-1882.

Lariviere, W.R., Sattar, M.A. and Melzack, R. (2006). “Inflammation-susceptible Lewis rats show less sensitivity than resistant Fischer rats in the formalin inflammatory pain test and with repeated thermal testing”. Journal of Neurophysiology, 95: 2889-2897.

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