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

1.    Sattar, A., Sinha, S.K. Argyropoulos, C. and Unruh, M. (2012). “Joint modeling of all-cause mortality and longitudinally measured serum albumin”. Progress in Applied Mathematics, 4(2): 1-14.

2.    Sattar, A., Sinha, S.K., Morris, N.J. (2012).  “A parametric survival model when a covariate is subject to left-censoring”. Journal of Biometrics and Biostatistics, S3:002. doi:10.4172/2155-6180.S3-002.

3.    Sattar, A., Argyropoulos, C., Weissfeld, L., Younus, N., Fried, L., Kellum, J.A., and Unruh, M. (2012). “All-cause and cause-specific mortality associated with diabetes in prevalent hemodialysis patients”. BMC Nephrology , doi:10.1186/1471-2369-13-130.

4.    Fiore, J.M.D., Kaffashi, F., Loparo, K., Sattar, A., Schluchter, M.D., Foglyano1, R., Martin, R.J., Wilson, C.G. (2012). “Relationship Between Patterns of Intermittent Hypoxia and Retinopathy of Prematurity in Preterm Infants”. Pediatric Research, doi: 10.1038/pr.2012.132.

5.    Saha, A., Barman, I., Dingari, N., Galindo, L., Sattar, A., Liu, W., Plecha, D., Klein, N, Dasari, R., Fitzmaurice, M. (2012). “Precision of Raman Spectroscopy Measurements in Detection of Microcalcifications in Breast Needle Biopsies”. Analytical Chemistry, 84 (15): 6715–6722.

6.    Greco, C., Li, T., Sattar, A., Kao, A.H., Danchenko, N., Edmundowicz, D., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Kuller, L., Manzi, S.(2012).  “Association between depression and Vascular disease in SLE”. The journal of Rheumatology, 39(2): 262-268.

7.    Pirasteh, A., Snyder, L., Lin, R., Rosenblum, D., Reed, S., Sattar, A., Passalacqua, M., Prologo, J.D. (2012). “Temporal Assessment of Splenic Function in Patients who Have Undergone Percutaneous Image-guided Splenic Artery Embolization in the Setting of Trauma”. J Vasc Interv Radiol.23(1): 80-2.

8.    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, 30, 3167–3180.

9.    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.

10.  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.

11.  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.

12.  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.

13.  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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