Reseach Interests

• Functional Data Analysis
• Multivariate Data Analysis and Modeling
• Probability Theory and its Applications
• Biostatistics
• Time Series

Publications

Book

Diawara, N.: “New Classes of Multivariate Gamma Survival and Reliability Models,” Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-8383-1140-1,121 pages, Summer 2009. (link)

Chapter Book

Diawara, N. and M. Carpenter, Title Chapter: “A Multivariate Gamma Distribution for Linearly Related Proportional Outcomes,” pp. 787-812, Title of Book: “Handbook of Fitting Statistical Distributions with R,” in CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-58488-711-9, 1672 pages. (link)

Refereed Journals and Proceedings (*indicates student collaborator)

• Diawara N. (2011), “Semi-parametric Estimation for Marginal and Small Data Expression: the kidney Data Example,” Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Proceedings Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Miami, FL, pp. 3230-3238.
• Sinha, S., A. Biswal, A. Gupta, N. Diawara and G.L. Lee (2011), “Assessing Critical Reading Skills Among English as Second Language (ESL) College Students,” Research J. of Berhampur University, Vol. 1, 2011, pp. 145-153.
• Das, K., S. Sarker* and N. Diawara (2011), “Further Review of Panjer's Recursion for Evaluation of Compound Negative Binomial Distribution using R,” Missouri J. Math. Sci. (MJMS), Vol 23, Issue 2, pp.182-191. (link)
• Jeng H.A., C.H. Pan, G.P. Chang-Chien, N. Diawara,  P.C. Lin, C.Y. Peng, M.T. Wu (2011), “Repeated measurements for assessment of urinary 2-naphthol levels in individuals exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,” J. of Environmental Sciences and Health, Part A, Tox Hazard Subst Envir Eng., Vol. 46, No. 8. pp. 865-873. (link)
• Prista* N, N. Diawara, M.J. Costa and C. Jones (2011), “Using SARIMA to assess data-poor data-limited fisheries: a case study with a sciaenid fishery off Portugal,” Fisheries Bulletin, Vol. 109, 2, pp. 170-185. (link)
• Oluyede B. and N. Diawara (2011), “On Mean Advantage Over Inferiors Ordering and Weighted Distributions,” Int. J. Contemp. Math. Sciences, Vol. 6, 2011, no. 5, pp. 229-239. (link)
• Jeng H.A., C.H. Pan, N. Diawara, G.P. Chang-Chien, W.Y. Lin, C.H. Ho and M.T. Wu (2010), “Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons-induced oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation in relation to immunological alteration,” J. of Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 68, No. 9, pp.653-658. (link)
• Indika* S.H., N. Diawara and R. King (2010), “Efficient Semi-parametric Estimation for Marginal Correlated small sample data,” Proceedings of International Neural, Parallel, and Scientific Computations Conference 4, Atlanta, GA, pp. 161-168. (link)
• Zhang Q., Z. Chen, N. Diawara and Y. Wang (2010), “Prices of unhealthy foods, food stamp program participation, and body weight status among low income women,” J. of Family and Economic Issues, Vol. 32, pp. 245-256. (link)
• Diawara N. and K. Das (2010), “The Joint Distribution of Bivariate Exponential under linearly Related Models,” P. J. of Statistics and Operation Research (PJSOR) Vol. 6, 1, 2010, pp.1-19. (link)
• Diawara N. and M. Carpenter (2010), “Mixture of Bivariate Exponential Distributions,” Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, Vol. 39, 15, pp. 2711-20. (link)
• Diawara N. (2009), “Bivariate Exponential Mixture Models,” Section on Risk Analysis, Proceedings Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Washington DC, pp. 865-869. (link)
• Indika* S.H. and N. Diawara (2010), “Linear Dependency for the Difference in Exponential Regression,” Involve, a Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 3, 2, pp. 215-222. (link)
• Diawara N. (2009), “Notes on Bivariate Exponential Mixture for Heterogeneous Survival Data,” Proceedings 12th North American Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability, pp. 12-15. (link)
• Diawara N. and M. Carpenter (2008), “A Bivariate Gamma Distribution and its Characterization,” Section on Risk Analysis, Proceedings Joints Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2007, pp. 1802-1808. (link)
• Diawara N. (2008), “Multivariate Gamma Distribution Based on Linear Relationship,” Journal of Applied Statistical Science (JASS), Vol. 17, Issue 4, pp. 483-493. (link)
• Carpenter M. and N. Diawara (2007), “A Multivariate Gamma Distribution and Its Characterizations,” American J. Management Mathematical Sciences (AJMMS), Vol. 27 No. 3 & 4 pp. 499-507. (link)
• McCown* F., N. Diawara and M.L. Nelson (2007), “Factors Affecting Website Reconstruction from Web Infrastructure,” Proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2007, pp. 39-48. (link)
• Carpenter M., N. Diawara and Y. Han (2006), “A New Class of Bivariate Survival and Reliability Models,” American J. Management Mathematical Sciences (AJMMS), Vol. 26 No. 1 & 2, pp 163-184. (link)

Doctoral Student

SH Sathish Indika, graduated 2010

Reviewer and Referee for:

American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences (AJMMS)
Communications in Statistics
Involve: A Journal of Mathematics
Journal of Combinatorics, Information & System Sciences (JCISS)
Journal of Multivariate Analysis (JMVA)
Entropy
The American Statistician (TAS)

Professional Associations:

American Mathematical Society (AMS)
American Statistical Association (ASA)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Southern Regional Council on Statistics (SRCOS)

Virtual Computing Lab (link)