The Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), University of Dhaka, is the leading institution for training and research in Applied Statistics in Bangladesh. It was founded in 1964 by the Late National Professor Dr. Qazi Motahar Husain, an eminent scientist, academician, and a leading proponent of the statistical sciences in this country. Shafiqur Rahman. The Institute offers a 4-year
B.S. (Honors) program that has been designed to produce graduates with strong statistical computing skills, sound knowledge of statistical concepts, and the versatility to apply these concepts in areas as diverse as medicine, engineering, economics, and the social sciences. The 1-year M.S. program consists of specialized courses in areas ranging from environmental statistics to machine learning, clinical trials, and meta-analysis and has been designed for students with a keen interest in higher studies and research. In addition, the Institute offers Ph.D. and M.Phil. degree programs. ISRT boasts an academic environment that is highly competitive and conducive to research. Both students and faculty members benefit from the regular seminars and talks given by researchers from home and abroad on topics of current interest. The Institute has a rich library with well over 15,000 books and is equipped with three state-of-the-art computer labs and high-speed internet access for graduate and undergraduate students. The aim is to provide a learning environment that stimulates intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and independent problem-solving skills. The Journal of Statistical Research (JSR), which is an international journal that has been published bi-annually by ISRT since 1970, serves as a forum for the exchange of research ideas between statisticians in Bangladesh and abroad. Faculty members conduct research in diverse areas such as biostatistics, spatial statistics, statistical machine learning, statistical pattern recognition, Bayesian analysis, and econometrics and regularly publish in peer-reviewed journals.
