Dr. Taraneh Abarin
Associate Professor - Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1C 5S7
Canada
Office: HH-3058
Phone: 709-864-8733
Fax: 709-864-3010
Research Interests
Bayesian methods, Measurement error and, Misclassification models, Monte Carlo Methods, Gene-Environmental Interaction Studies, Longitudinal Models, Linear and nonlinear models
Teaching
1. Courses taught at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University
- Winter 2017 Statistical Thinking and Concepts (STAT1510) and Further Statistics for Science Students (STAT2560)
- Winter 2016 STAT1510
- Fall 2015 Multivariate Statistical Analysis (STAT4560) and STAT1510
- Winter 2015 Regression (STAT3521) and Statistics for Science Students (STAT2550)
- Fall 2014 Statistics for Business Students (STAT2500), STAT3521 and STAT2560
- Fall 2013 STAT4560
- Summer 2013 Generalized Linear Longitudinal Mixed Models
- Winter 2013 Mathematical Statistics II (STAT3411) and STAT3521
- Fall 2012 Mathematical Statistics I (STAT3410)
- Winter 2012 STAT3411 and STAT3521
- Fall 2011 STAT 3410
2. Courses taught at Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba
- Summer 2009 Basic Statistical Analysis II (STAT2000)
- Fall 2008 Basic Statistical Analysis I (STAT1000)
- Fall 2007 STAT1000
- Summer 2006 STAT1000
3. Courses taught at Izlamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Winter 1996 Statistics and its Application in Management
Fall 1995 Statistics and its Application in Management
Appointments held
- 2011-2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland
- 2009-2011 Post-Doctoral Fellow Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
- 2006-2009 Seasonal Instructor, Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
- 2004-2007 Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
- 1999-2004 Deputy Director, Statistical Centre of Iran, Tehran, Iran
- 1995-1999 Senior Statistician, Statistical Center of Iran, Tehran, Iran
- 1995-1996 Seasonal Instructor, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- 1994-1995 Statistician, Management and Planning Organization of Iran
Education
- 2009 PhD in Statistics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- 1995 MSc in Statistics, Shiraz University, Iran
- 1992 BSc in Statistics, Shiraz University, Iran
Publications
1. Refereed journal articles
- Payne, A., Knight, J., and Abarin, T. (2016), "The Effect of Environmental Factors on Obesity among the Newfoundland Population: A Quantile Regression Approach", Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics, 7:293.
- Barning, F., and Abarin, T. (2016), "Assessing Causality in the Association between (Abdominal) Obesity and Physical Activity among the Newfoundland Population: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis", Genetics & Epigenetics, 8, 15-24.
- Payne, A., Cahill, F., Sun, G., Loredo-Osti, JC., and Abarin, T. (2014), "The Effect of FTO Gene and Physical Activity Interaction on Trunk Fat Percentage among the Population of Newfoundland and Labrador", Genetics & Epigenetics, 6, 21-30.
- Abarin, T. (2013), "Gene-environment Interaction Studies with Measurement Error: Application in The CODING Study", Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics, 4: 173.
- Abarin, T., Wu, Y., Warrington, N., Pennell, C., and Briollais, L. (2012), "The Impact of Breastfeeding on FTO-related BMI Growth Trajectories: An Application to the RAINE Birth and Child Cohort Study", International Journal of Epidemiology, 41(6): 1650-60.
- Abarin, T., Li, H., Wang, L., and Briollais, L. (2012), "On Method of Moments Estimation in Linear Mixed Effects Models with Measurement Error on Covariates and Response with Application to Longitudinal studies of Gene-environment Interaction", Statistics in Biosciences, 6(1), 1-18.
- Abarin, T. and Wang, L. (2010), "Instrumental Variable Approach to Covariate Measurement Error in Generalized Linear Models", Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 64(3), 475-493.
- Abarin, T. and Wang, L. (2009), "Second-Order Least Squares Estimation of Censored Regression Models", Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139(2), 125-135.
- Abarin, T. (2008), "Teaching with Love, not Duty", University of Manitoba, University Teaching Services Newsletter, 16 (3), 9.
- Abarin, T. and Wang, L. (2006), "Comparison of GMM with Second-order Least Squares Estimation in Nonlinear Models", Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 20 (2), 179-196.
- Abarin, T. (2003), "Application of Two-Phase Sampling in Education Survey in Tehran, International Statistical Institute (ISI) Conference Bulletin.
- Yazdani, A. and Abarin, T. (1999), "How Statistical Papers should be Studied? An Instruction for Students" (in Farsi), Andisheye Amari, 3, 53-57.
- Ghadaki Malmiri, T. and Abarin, T. (1998), "Introducing a Regression Model for Estimating Population in Small Areas" (in Farsi), Fourth Iranian International Statistical Conference Bulletin.
2. Book Chapter
Li, J., Dankwa, E., and Abarin, T. (2016), "Bias Study of the Naïve Estimator in a Longitudinal Linear Mixed-effects Model with Measurement Error and Misclassification in Covariates", Intelligent Mathematics II: Applied Mathematics and Approximation Theory, Springer, Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-319-30322-2.
Grants held
2017 - 2022 NSERC Discovery Grant, Memorial University, $70,000
2012 - 2016 NSERC Discovery Grant, Memorial University, $75,000
2012 - 2014 Research and Development Corporation, St. John’s, NL, $84,000
Honours and awards
- 2010 - 2012 The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems Post-doctoral Fellowship
- 2005 - 2008 University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship
- 2005 University of Manitoba Student’s Union Scholarship
- 2004-2005 University of Manitoba Faculty of Science Graduate Studentship
- 1999 The Raymond T. Bowman Memorial Prize, Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations, Tokyo, Japan
Graduate Students
1. Current
- 2017-Present Amir Hossein Alvandi, MSc in Statistics
- 2016-Present Mahbuba Sultana, MSc in Statistics
- 2015-Present Sahar Arshadi, PhD in Statistics
2. Supervised
- 2013-2015 Frank Barning, MSc in Statistics
- 2012-2014 Ernest Dankwa, MSc in Statistics
- 2012-2014 Jia Li, MSc in Statistics
- 2011-2013 Zhaoyi Zhang, MSc in Applied Statistics
- 2015-2017 Rajib Dey, MSc in Statistics (co-supervisor)