Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan
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View article: Disparities in contraceptive preferences among Bangladeshi women: a multilevel logistic regression study
Disparities in contraceptive preferences among Bangladeshi women: a multilevel logistic regression study Open
Contraceptive preferences among non-using but intending women in Bangladesh are shaped by a complex interplay of individual and regional factors. Programs aiming to reduce unmet need and method discontinuation should adopt tailored strateg…
View article: Side effects of COVID-19 vaccines and perceptions about COVID-19 and its vaccines in Bangladesh: A Cross-sectional study
Side effects of COVID-19 vaccines and perceptions about COVID-19 and its vaccines in Bangladesh: A Cross-sectional study Open
Side effects of COVID-19 vaccines are minimal, demonstrating their safety. Efforts should be made to disseminate such findings worldwide to increase vaccine uptake.
View article: Side Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines and Perceptions about COVID-19 and Its Vaccines in Bangladesh
Side Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines and Perceptions about COVID-19 and Its Vaccines in Bangladesh Open
Introduction One of the primary reasons for hesitancy in taking COVID-19 vaccines is the fear of side effects. This study primarily aims to inspect the potential side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines circulated in Bangladesh. Methods The s…
View article: On sample size calculation in testing treatment efficacy in clinical trials
On sample size calculation in testing treatment efficacy in clinical trials Open
Summary Sample size calculation is an integral part of any clinical trial design, and determining the optimal sample size for a study ensures adequate power to detect statistical significance. It is a critical step in designing a planned r…
View article: Factors Influencing The First and Second Peak of COVID-19 Global Cases: A Survival Analysis
Factors Influencing The First and Second Peak of COVID-19 Global Cases: A Survival Analysis Open
Objectives The number of reported cases continues to increase everyday, since the first case of COVID-19 was detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Using the global COVID-19 data of 188 countries extracted from the Our World in Data be…
View article: Literate Life Expectancy in Bangladesh: A New Approach of Social Indicator
Literate Life Expectancy in Bangladesh: A New Approach of Social Indicator Open
Social indicators have been used informally for a very long time, particularly in economics, to assess the state of the nation and progress towards national objectives. Measuring people’s quality of life emphasizes human well being and par…
View article: Redefining Homogeneous Climate Regions in Bangladesh Using Multivariate Clustering Approaches
Redefining Homogeneous Climate Regions in Bangladesh Using Multivariate Clustering Approaches Open
The knowledge of the climate pattern for a particular region is important to alleviate the impact of climate change and protect the environment by taking appropriate actions based on geographical knowledge. It is also equally important for…
View article: Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis Applied to Binary Contraceptive Prevalence Data
Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis Applied to Binary Contraceptive Prevalence Data Open
In public health, demography and sociology, large-scale surveys often follow a hierarchical data structure as the surveys are based on multistage stratified cluster sampling. The appropriate approach to analyzing such survey data is theref…
View article: Contraceptive Method Choices Among Women In Oman: A Multilevel Analysis
Contraceptive Method Choices Among Women In Oman: A Multilevel Analysis Open
Contraception is not commonly used by Omani women because of socio-cultural traditions, religious beliefs and poor knowledge but among the users modern contraceptive methods are more popular than traditional methods. Multilevel analysis is…
View article: Efficiency Analysis of Manufacturing Firms Using Data Envelopment Analysis Technique
Efficiency Analysis of Manufacturing Firms Using Data Envelopment Analysis Technique Open
Efficiency analysis is very useful and important to measure the performance of the firms in com- petitive market of rapidly developing country like Bangladesh. The more efficient firms, and the decision making units (DMUs) are usually refe…
View article: Machine Learning Approaches Reveal That the Number of Tests Do Not Matter to the Prediction of Global Confirmed COVID-19 Cases
Machine Learning Approaches Reveal That the Number of Tests Do Not Matter to the Prediction of Global Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Open
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has developed into a global pandemic, affecting every nation and territory in the world. Machine learning-based approaches are useful when trying to understand the complexity behind the spread of the dis…
View article: Insights Into the First Seven-months of COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Lessons Learned from a High-risk Country
Insights Into the First Seven-months of COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Lessons Learned from a High-risk Country Open
BackgroundSouth Asian countries including Bangladesh have been struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic despite imposing months of lockdown and other public health measures. In-depth epidemiological information from these countries is l…
View article: Breaking the back of COVID-19: Is Bangladesh doing enough testing?
Breaking the back of COVID-19: Is Bangladesh doing enough testing? Open
Following detection of the first 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in early April, Bangladesh stepped up its efforts to strengthen testing capacity in order to curb the spread of the disease across the country. This paper sheds light on the …
View article: Insights into the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: Lessons learned from a high-risk country
Insights into the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: Lessons learned from a high-risk country Open
Background South Asian countries including Bangladesh have been struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic despite imposing months of lockdown and other public health measures (as of June 30, 2020). In-depth epidemiological information fr…
View article: Prevalence and risk factors for low birth weight in Jordan and its association with under-five mortality: a population-based analysis
Prevalence and risk factors for low birth weight in Jordan and its association with under-five mortality: a population-based analysis Open
The high rate of low birth weight and its increasing rate in Jordan is a challenge for public health. Preventing low birth weight neonates and increasing their survival need to be prioritized in the national health strategy. Special care n…
View article: Visualizing the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh using coxcombs: A tribute to Florence Nightingale
Visualizing the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh using coxcombs: A tribute to Florence Nightingale Open
Following detection of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in early December 2019 in Wuhan, China, nearly six months have passed and almost every country in the world is battling against the COVID-19 war. The frontline warriors, namely th…
View article: Breaking the back of COVID-19: Is Bangladesh doing enough testing?
Breaking the back of COVID-19: Is Bangladesh doing enough testing? Open
Following detection of the first 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in early April, Bangladesh stepped up its efforts to strengthen testing capacity in order to curb the spread of the disease across the country. This paper sheds light on the …
View article: Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Bangladesh Prepared?
Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Bangladesh Prepared? Open
Following detection of the first few COVID-19 cases in early March, Bangladesh has stepped up its efforts to strengthen capacity of the healthcare system to avert a crisis in the event of a surge in the number of cases. This paper sheds li…
View article: Countries are Clustered but Number of Tests is not Vital to Predict Global COVID-19 Confirmed Cases: A Machine Learning Approach
Countries are Clustered but Number of Tests is not Vital to Predict Global COVID-19 Confirmed Cases: A Machine Learning Approach Open
COVID-19 disease is a global pandemic and it appears as pandemic for each and every nation and territory in the earth.This paper focusses on analysing the global COVID-19 data by popular machine learning techniques to know which covariates…
View article: COVID-19 Outbreak Situations in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis
COVID-19 Outbreak Situations in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis Open
COVID-19 disease, as popularly known as Coronavirus 2019 disease, has been emerged from Wuhan, China in December 2019 and now is a pandemic for almost every nation in the earth. It affects every country without considering country’s race, …
View article: LITERATE LIFE EXPECTANCY AND ITS GENDER DIFFERENTIALS IN OMAN
LITERATE LIFE EXPECTANCY AND ITS GENDER DIFFERENTIALS IN OMAN Open
Measuring human quality and well-being by the human development index (HDI) is very challenging as it is a composite index of many socio-economic variables. However, a simple index called literate life expectancy (LLE) by combining life ex…
View article: Stability selection for lasso, ridge and elastic net implemented with AFT models
Stability selection for lasso, ridge and elastic net implemented with AFT models Open
The instability in the selection of models is a major concern with data sets containing a large number of covariates. We focus on stability selection which is used as a technique to improve variable selection performance for a range of sel…
View article: Trends and determinants of perinatal mortality in Bangladesh
Trends and determinants of perinatal mortality in Bangladesh Open
The study highlights the importance of strengthening proper postnatal care services in the healthcare facilities. Alongside this, effort should also be stressed to ensure proper pregnancy care and to improve the socio-economic condition of…
View article: Effect of Sample Size on the Profile Likelihood Estimates for Two-stage Hierarchical Linear Models
Effect of Sample Size on the Profile Likelihood Estimates for Two-stage Hierarchical Linear Models Open
Determining sample size to produce accurate parameter estimates and make valid inferences about population parameter is a pivotal problem in any well planned research. The issue of sample size becomes more complex in hierarchical linear mo…
View article: Role of parental education in reduction of prevalence of childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh
Role of parental education in reduction of prevalence of childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh Open
Objective Despite progress, levels of malnutrition among children in Bangladesh are among the highest in the world and this is one of the major causes of death in children. The pace of reduction in the prevalence of undernutrition among ch…
View article: Analysis of Unobserved Heterogeneity via Accelerated Failure Time Models Under Bayesian and Classical Approaches
Analysis of Unobserved Heterogeneity via Accelerated Failure Time Models Under Bayesian and Classical Approaches Open
This paper deals with unobserved heterogeneity in the survival dataset through Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) models under both frameworks--Bayesian and classical. The Bayesian approach of dealing with unobserved heterogeneity has recently…
View article: 730 Factors causing deaths due to injury among children in Bangladesh
730 Factors causing deaths due to injury among children in Bangladesh Open
Background Child injury has become a public health concern in both developing and developed world. In recent times, injury has been identified as a leading cause for both morbidity and mortality among children. This study has concentrated …
View article: Mortality Forecasting Using Lee Carter Model Implemented to French Mortality Data
Mortality Forecasting Using Lee Carter Model Implemented to French Mortality Data Open
For the reason of simplicity the Lee and Carter (LC) method is getting widely adopted for long-run forecasts of age specific mortality rates. In this paper the LC model is applied to French mortality data to demonstrate the mortality resul…