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Ibrahim Ahmad (Abe), Neil R. Grabois Chair in Mathematics, Emeritus


Contact Information

Current Courses
Email: iahmad@colgate.edu

Department Affiliation

Non-Colgate Employee

Teaching & Research

Title
Neil R. Grabois Chair in Mathematics, Emeritus (2005)

Degree
Cairo University 1965; PhD Florida State University 1975

Teaching Experience
Professor, UCF 1999-2005; professor, NIU 1987-1999; associate professor, USF 1983-1987; Maryland 1982-1983

Specialties
Statistics, actuarial science, mathematics

Interests
Nonparametric statistics, life testing and reliability, actuarial science, applied probability

Selected Publications
Most recent publications include "Some Properties of Classes of Life Distribution with Unknown Age." (Statistics and Probability Letters, 69, 2004); "A Simple and More Efficient New Approach to Life Testing." (Communications In Statistics: Theory and Methods, 33, 2004); co-author of "Further Moments Inequalities of Life Distributions with Hypothesis Testing Application." (Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 120; 2004); "On The Mean Idle Time Ordering With Reliability Applications. (Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 18, 2004); "Kernel Contrasts: An Automatic and Data Dependent Bandwidth Selection Method." (Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 16, 2004); "Goodness of Fit Testing of a Weak Memoryless Property." (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 46, 2004); "Bandwidth Selection for Kernel Density Estimation of Functions of Random Variables." (Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 47, 2004); "Data Based Bandwidth Selection Kernel in Density Estimation with Parametric Start via Kernel Contrasts." (Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 16, 2004); "On the Finite Sample Behavior of Hollander, Park, and Proschan's Test of New is Better Than Used of Specified Age." (Metrika, 60, 2004); several publications forthcoming in 2005.

Professional Experience
Consultant, state of Florida 1973-1975

Distinctions
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; Fellow, American Statistical Association; Fellow, Royal Statistical Society (UK); Fellow, Institute of International Statistics

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