Curriculum Vitae
Dr.Moshira Ahmed Ismail
Personal Information
Name
: Moshira Ahmed Ismail
Date of Birth
:9/5/1958
Occupation
: Professor, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science
Cairo University.
Telephone
: home (02)37486027 mobile 01278294446
E-mail Address
moshiraahmed@hotmail.com
moshiraahmed@feps.edu.eg
Academic Degrees
B. Sc. in Statistics, Grade Excellent with honours, May 1979. Faculty of Economics and
Political Science, Cairo University.
M. Sc .in Statistics ,Grade Excellent ,19/6/1984.Faculty of Economics and Political Science,
Cairo University.
Title of my M. Sc .Thesis
Acceptance Sampling and its Application in Life and Reliability Testing.
Ph.D. in Statistics,17/10/1988.University College Of Wales. United Kingdom.
Title of my Ph. D. Thesis
Optimal Designs of Life Tests with Cost Considerations.
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Positions held in Cairo University, Egypt.
1.Demonstrator, Faculty of Economics and Political Science , Statistics Department, Cairo
University, starting from December 1979.
2.Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Political Science , Statistics Department, Cairo
University, starting from 30/7/1984
3.Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Political Science ,Statistics Department,
Cairo University, starting from 30/11/1988. .
4.Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Statistics Department,
Cairo University, starting from 27/12/1995 till September2008
5.Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Statistics Department,
Cairo University, starting from August2008
Academic Activities in Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University(1989-2002)
Teaching Courses
Some of these courses are
-Introduction to Mathematics for first year students
-Linear Algebra for second year students-department of statistics
-Mathematics for third year students –department of statistics
-Reliability Studies For M.Sc. and Ph.D. students-department of statistics
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Participating in Committees
-committee for developing the curriculums of mathematics courses-statistics department
-committee involved in organizing the annual conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in
Human and Social Sciences held in Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University
Supervising Researches
-Supervising graduation projects of students
-co-supervising 3 M.Sc Thesis and 3 Ph. D Thesis
- Academic Activities in Faculty of Science , King Saud University(2002-2009)
Teaching Courses
Some of these courses are
1) Undergraduate Courses
-Introduction to statistics and probability I and II
--Statistics for students of mathematics
-Biostatistics
2)Postgraduate Courses
-Introduction to Statistical Inference
-Hypothesis Testing
-Reliability Studies
Membership in committees:
1- Member in the committee of appointing demonstrators in the department of statistics during the
academic period 2005-2007
2- Member in the committee of post graduate studies in the department of statistics during the
academic year 2007-2008
3- The representative of the department of statistics in the accreditation and assessment committee
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during the period 2006-2008
Participation in workshops:
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Participation by a lecture entitled (Non-Parametric Statistics) in the workshop organized by
the research center of Malaz in March 2006.
Supervision of Thesis
co supervising 3 M.Sc. thesis
Academic Activities in Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University(2009-2013)
Teaching Courses
-Theory of Statistics I
-Probability II
-Theory of Sampling
-Mathematical Analysis I
Supervising researches
-Supervising graduation projects
-supervising M.Sc. Thesis
Participating in Committees
Participating in the Quality control unit as head of the assessment committee
Training Courses Attended
1)Criteria for achieving quality in teaching
2)Evaluation of Exams
3)Ethics of Scientific Research
4)Scientific Publication
5)E-learning
6)Credit Hours
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7)Academic Guidance
Titles of Ph .D and M. Sc .Theses obtained under my supervision
1. Estimation of Reliability Function in Accelerated Life Testing, M.Sc.Thesis,1991.
2. Design of Experiments for Distributions Useful in Life Testing, Ph. D. Thesis , 1996.
3. On the Rayleigh Distribution as a Lifetime Distribution, M.Sc.Thesis,1997.
4. Bayesian Estimation and Prediction For the Pareto Distribution as a Lifetime Model,
M.Sc.Thesis,2000.
5. Designing Bayesian Sampling Plans for the Burr Lifetime Distribution, Ph . D. Thesis,
2002.
6. The Inverse Weibull Distribution as a Lifetime Model. Ph. D. Thesis, 2004.
7.Statistical Inferences based on Finite Mixture Distributions .M.Sc. Thesis,2005
8.Tree-Structured Analysis of Survival Data.M.Sc.Thesis,2009
Publications
1. Bayesian life test sampling plans for the two-parameter exponential distribution, 1985.
Communications in Statistics, 14,691-707.
2. Point and interval estimates for Reliability Function using the Power Rule Model, 1991.
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in
Human and Social Sciences . Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University,141-157.
3.Bayesian estimation of the Reliability function using the Power Rule Model, 1994.
Economics and Business Review, Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University,151-161.
The same article was also presented in a conference in Nottingham, U.K. in 1992.
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4. Expected gain in information about a future observation from a model useful in life testing, 1994.
Proceedings of the 29 th Annual Conference on Statistics, Computer Science and Operations Research.
Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University 29, 1-18.
5. Bayesian type II censored designs for the Weibull lifetime model : Information and loss functions
based criteria,1995. Proceedings of the 7th Annual conference an Statistics and Computer Modeling
in Human and Social Sciences. Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 135-157.
6. On the loss of information through the use of hybrid censoring, 1995.
The Egyptian Statistical Journal, 39,1,65-88
7. Bayesian type I censored designs for the Weibull lifetime model .
Information based criterion, 1996. The Egyptian Statistical Journal, 40, 2 ,127-150.
8. Bayesian estimation and prediction under the Raleigh distribution, 1997. Proceedings
of the 9th Annual conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social
Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 36-60.
9. Bayesian point prediction for the two-parameter Pareto distribution, 1999. Proceedings
of the 11th Annual conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social
Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University,189-211.
10. Bayesian type I and random censoring designs for the Burr distribution using an
information based criterion,2000.Proceedings of the 12 th Annual Conference on
Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Sciences, Faculty of Economics
and Political Science, Cairo University.
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11. Comparative life test designs for the Burr distribution using an information based
Criterion, 2000. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Statistics, Computer
Science and Operations Research, Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo
University, 30-49.
12. Bayesian analysis of hybrid censored life tests using asymmetric loss functions, 2001.Nahda
Quarterly Journal, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 9,5-28.
13. Bayesian interim analysis regarding future observations from two-parameter Pareto and
Exponential distributions, 2001.The Egyptian Statistical Journal,45,1,1-25.
14. Mixture of Two Inverse Weibull Distributions: Properties and estimation,2007
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,51,5377-5387.
15. Testing the Number of Components of the Mixture of Two Inverse Weibull Distributions,2009
International Journal of Computer Mathematics,86(4),693-702
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