Saralees Nadarajah
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield
Academic work
DisciplineStatistics
Sub-disciplineExtreme value theory
Nonparametric statistics
Information theory

Saralees Nadarajah is a British statistician specialising in distribution theory, extreme value theory, nonparametric statistics, and their applications.

Early life and education

Nadarajah was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Zimbabwe.[citation needed] He obtained his B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Zimbabwe in Harare.[citation needed] Nadarajah earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from the University of Sheffield in the UK, in 1991 and 1994 respectively.[1][2]

Career

Nadarajah is a reader at the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester.[3] He was previously affiliated with the Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the University of South Florida.[4][5][6]

Nadarajah is the founder of Educate Africa project which he started in 2017.[7]

Research

Nadarajah specializes in statistical fields including extreme value and distribution theory, nonparametric statistics, information theory, and reliability.[8][9] His expertise also extends to sampling theory, statistical software development, and time series analysis.[8] Nadarajah-Haghighi (UNH) class of distribution is named after him.[10]

Awards and recognition

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37300433000
  2. ^ "Saralees Nadarajah". Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  3. ^ "Academic and research staff (A-Z) - Department of Mathematics - the University of Manchester".
  4. ^ "Saralees Nadarajah - Home". Author DO Series.
  5. ^ Wang, Yi; Eskridge, Kent M.; Nadarajah, Saralees (August 7, 2012). "Optimal design of mixed-effects PK/PD models based on differential equations". Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics. 22 (1): 180–205. doi:10.1080/10543406.2010.513465. PMID 22204534. S2CID 42462863 – via PubMed.
  6. ^ Nadarajah, Saralees (2002). "A conversation with Samuel Kotz" (PDF). Statistical Science. 17 (2). doi:10.1214/ss/1030550863.
  7. ^ "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Educate Africa: an appeal for researchers".
  8. ^ a b https://minerva.it.manchester.ac.uk/~saralees/
  9. ^ Longin, Francois (2016). Extreme Events in Finance: A Handbook of Extreme Value Theory and Its Applications. Wiley. ISBN 9781118650196.
  10. ^ Nasiru, Suleman; Abubakari, Abdul Ghaniyyu; Abonongo, John (August 1, 2022). "Unit Nadarajah-Haghighi Generated Family of Distributions: Properties and Applications". Sankhya A. 84 (2): 450–476. doi:10.1007/s13171-020-00203-6. S2CID 225695408 – via Springer Link.
  11. ^ "The 2007 Thomsa L. Saaty and Jacob Wolfowitz Prizes". American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences. 28 (3–4): 511. February 7, 2008. doi:10.1080/01966324.2008.10737741. S2CID 220313559 – via CrossRef.
  12. ^ "Dr Saralees Nadarajah wins three Education Awards".

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