Research Publications:

Book under preparation (accepted for publication):

• Atkinson, A.C. and Biswas, A. (2009). Response-Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials. Chapman & Hall/CRC. (In the Monograph on Statistics and Applied Probability Series). ISBN-10: 1584886935, ISBN-13: 978-1584886938.

Edited Volume:

• Biswas, A., Datta, S., Fine, J. and Segal, M. (2008). Statistical Advances in Biomedical Sciences: State of the Art and Future Directions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. (582 pages). Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics.

Some selected research papers: More than 100 research papers are published in different journals. A few of them are listed below:

Adaptive clinical trial:

• Atkinson, A.C. and Biswas, A. (2005). Bayesian adaptive biased-coin designs for clinical trials with normal responses. Biometrics 61, 118-125.
• Atkinson, A.C. and Biswas, A. (2005). Adaptive biased-coin designs for skewing the allocation proportion in clinical trials with normal responses. Statistics in Medicine 24, 2477-2492.
• Biswas, A. and Dewanji, A. (2004). A randomized longitudinal play-the-winner design for repeated binary data. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 46, 675-684.
• Biswas, A. and Mandal, S. (2004). Optimal adaptive designs in phase III clinical trials for continuous responses with covariates. In mODa 7 – Advances in Model-Oriented Design and Analysis. Di Bucchianico, A., Lauter, H. and Wynn, H.P. (eds.). Physica-Verlag. Pp. 51-59.
• Bandyopadhyay, U. and Biswas, A. (2001). Adaptive designs for normal responses with prognostic factors. Biometrika 88, 409-419.
• Bandyopadhyay, U. and Biswas, A. (1999). Allocation by randomized play-the-winner rule in the presence of prognostic factors. Sankhya Series B 61, 397-412.

Model discrimination and parameter estimation:

• Biswas, A. and Chaudhuri, P. (2002). An efficient design for model discrimination and parameter estimation in linear models. Biometrika 89, 709-718.

Zero-inflated data:

• Angers, J.-F. and Biswas, A. (2003). A Bayesian analysis of zero-inflated generalized Poisson model. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 42, 37-46.

Group sequential design:

• Bandyopadhyay, U. and Biswas, A. (2003). Nonparametric group sequential designs in randomized clinical trials. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 45, 367-376.

Nonparametrics:

• Banerjee, T. and Biswas, A. (2007). Nonparametric test for random component in a two-way nested design with mixed effect model. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 59, 197-210.

Sequential analysis:

• Bandyopadhyay, U., Das, R. and Biswas, A. (2003). Fixed width confidence interval for P(X<Y) in a partial sequential sampling scheme. Sequential Analysis 22, 75-93.

Categorical data:

• Biswas, A. and Park, E. (2009). Measures of association for nominal categorical variables. Journal of the Korean Statistical Society. In press.
• Biswas, A. and Das, K. (2002). A Bayesian analysis of bivariate ordinal data: Wisconsin epidemiologic study of diabetic retinopathy revisited. Statistics in Medicine 21, 549-559.

Mixed discrete and continuous data:

• Guha, A. and Biswas, A. (2008). An overview of modeling techniques for hybrid brain data. Statistica Sinica 18, 1311-1340.
• Cheng, T.-C. and Biswas, A. (2008). Maximum trimmed likelihood estimators for multivariate mixed continuous and categorical data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 52, 2042-2065.

Time series of discrete data:

• Biswas, A. and Song, P. X.-K. (2009). Discrete-valued ARMA processes. Statistics and Probability Letters. In press.
• Biswas, A. and Guha, A. (2009). Time series analysis of categorical data on infant sleep status using auto-mutual information. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. In press.

Geodesic PCA:

• Mukherjee, M.C. and Biswas, A. (2009). Discussion on the paper ``Intrinsic shape analysis: Geodesic PCA for Riemannian manifolds modulo isometric lie group actions" by S. Huckemann, T. Hotz and A. Munk. Statistica Sinica. In press.

Statistics in human genetics:

• Shekar, S.N., Bandyopadhyay, T. and Biswas, A. (2006). S.N. Does effect of cadmium on glutathione content of red blood corpuscles depend on gene? A stastattistical investigation based on data generated from a twin study. Twin Research and Human Genetics Journal 9, 73-75.

Illness-death model:

• Biswas, A. and Dewanji, A. (2004). Scheduling optimal examination times in simple illness-death model. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 126, 173-187.

Statistical inference:

• Bandyopadhyay, U. and Biswas, A. (2000). An alternative one sided test of normal mean. Sequential Analysis 19, 205-219.

Stress-stength reliability:

• Banerjee, T. and Biswas, A. (2003). A new formulation of stress-strength reliability in a regression set-up. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 112, 147-157.

Availability:

• Biswas, A., Sarkar, J. and Sarkar, S. (2003). Availability of a periodically inspected system maintained under an imperfect repair policy. IEEE Transactions on Reliability 52, 311-318.

Distribution theory:

• Biswas, A. and Hwang, J.-S. (2002). A New Bivariate Binomial Distribution. Statistics and Probability Letters 60, 231-240.

Crossover design:

• Bandyopadhyay, U., Biswas, A. and Mukherjee, S. (2007). Adaptive two-treatment .two-period crossover design for binary treatment responses. Statistica Neerlandica 61, 329-344.

Missing data:

• Biswas, A. and Rao, J.N.K. (2004). Missing responses in adaptive allocation design. Statistics and Probability Letters 70, 59-70.