Faculty

College / Department

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Teaching areas

Statistics and Mathematics including Mathematical Statistics, Probability and Regression Analysis.

Research areas

Generalizing statistical distributions arising from the hazard function, statistical inference of probability models, characterization of distributions and bivariate and multivariate weighted distributions.

Education

BSc, Yarmouk University, Jordan, 2002

MS, University of Jordan, Jordan, 2005

PhD, Central Michigan University, USA, 2011

Professional experience

American University of Sharjah, UAE, 2017 - Present

Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, 2014 - 2017

Austin Peay State University, USA, 2011 - 2014

University of Jordan, Jordan, 2006 - 2007

Memberships

American Statistical Association

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2916

Dr. Ayman Alzaatreh

Associate Professor

PhD in Statistics, Central Michigan University, USA

Ayman Alzaatreh joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at American University of Sharjah in August 2017. Previously, he served at institutions including Austin Peay State University in the US and Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. His current research interest focuses on generalizing statistical distributions arising from the hazard function. Other research areas include statistical inference of probability models, characterization of distributions, and bivariate and multivariate weighted distributions.

Publications

Sanku, D., Alzaatreh, A., Zhang, C. & Kumar, D. (2017). A new extension of the exponential distribution with application to Ozone data. Ozone: Science and Engineering, 39, 273-285.

Arnold, B.C., Ghosh, I. & Alzaatreh, A. (2017). Construction of bivariate and multivariate weighted distributions via conditioning. Communications in Statistics: Theory & Methods, 46, 8897-8912.

Alzaatreh, A. & Ghosh, I. (2016). A study of the gamma-Pareto (IV) distribution and its applications. Communications in Statistics: Theory & Methods, 45, 636-654.

Tahir, M., Zubair, M., Cordeiro, G., Alzaatreh, A. & Mansoor, M. (2016). The Poisson-X family of distributions. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 86, 2901-2921.

Tahir, M., Cordeiro, G., Alzaatreh, A., Zubair, M. & Mansoor, M. (2016). The Logistic-X family of distributions and its applications. Communications in Statistics: Theory & Methods, 45, 7326-7349.

Ghosh, I. & Alzaatreh, A. (2015). A new class of bivariate and multivariate exponential distributions. Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 50, 77-98.

Alzaatreh, A., Famoye, F. & Lee, C. (2014). The gamma-normal distribution: Properties and applications. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 69, 67-80.

Alzaatreh, A., Famoye, F. & Lee, C (2014). T-normal family of distribution: A new approach to generalize the normal distribution. Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications, 1, 1-16.

Lee, C., Famoye, F. & Alzaatreh, A. (2013). Methods for generating families of continuous distribution in the recent decades. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 5, 219-238.

Alzaatreh, A., Lee, C. & Famoye, F. (2013). A new method for generating families of continuous distributions. Metron, 71, 63-79.

Alzaatreh, A., Lee, C. & Famoye, F. (2012). On the discrete analogues of continuous distributions. Statistical Methodology, 9(6), 589-603.

Alzaatreh, A., Famoye, F. & Lee, C. (2013). Weibull-Pareto distribution and its applications. Communications in Statistics: Theory & Methods, 42, 1673-1691.

Conference Presentations

Alzaatreh, A. and Ahsanullah, M. Parameter estimation for the log-logistic distribution based on order statistics. International Conference of Statistical Distribution and Applications, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, October, 2016.

Alzaatreh, A., Lee, C. and Famoye, F. Generalized family of Cauchy distribution. Presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting, Seatle, USA, August, 2015.

Ghosh, I. and Alzaatreh A. Bayesian inference based on conditional priors for bivariate hidden truncated Pareto II model. Third International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics and Biostatistics. Baltimore, Maryland. October 2014.

Ghosh, I. and Alzaatreh, A. On the gamma-logistic distribution. TAS Annual conference-Motlow College, Tennessee, November 2013.

Alzaatreh, A., Lee, C. and Famoye, F. T-normal family of distributions: A new method for generalizing the normal distribution. The International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications, Michigan, October 2013.

Famoye, F., Lee, C. and Alzaatreh, A. The T-X class of probability distributions. The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Montral, Canada, August 2013.

Lee, C., Famoye, F. and Alzaatreh, A. An overview of methods for generating continuous distributions. The Institute of Statistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2013.

Knight, K. and Alzaatreh A. Applications to Generalized Distributions. The Mathematical Association of America conference-Winthrop University, South Carolina, March 2013.

Alzaatreh, A., Lee, C. and Flex, F. A new method for generating continuous distributions. The TAS Annual conference-Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, November 2012.

Ghosh, I. and Alzaatreh, A. On the gamma-Pareto (IV) distribution and its applications. The 32nd Annual Mathematics Symposium-Western Kentucky University, Kentucky, October, 2012.

Ghosh, I. and Alzaatreh, A. A study of the gamma-Pareto (IV) distribution and its applications. The TAS Annual conference-Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, November 2012.

Felix, F., Lee, C. and Alzaatreh, A. On the discrete analogues of continuous distributions. Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, July, 2012.

Awards and Honors

Social Policy Fund Grant, Nazarbayev University, 2015

Scholarly and Creative Fellowship Grant, Austin Peay State University, 2014

Faculty Research Fund Grant Award, Austin Peay State University, 2013

Summer Faculty Research Grant, Austin Peay State University, 2012

Outstanding Teaching Award, Central Michigan University, USA, 2011.

Other creative/research

Associate Editor of the Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications, 2015-Present. 2015-Present.

Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computational and Theoretical Statistics (IJCTS), 2014-Present.