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Dr Yassir Rabhi

Lecturer
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)
Dr Yassir Rabhi

Profile

Qualifications

  • PhD in statistics, McGill University, Canada, (2012)

Appointments

University of Essex

  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex (1/4/2020 - present)

Other academic

  • Assistant Professor, Mathematics, State University of New York (1/9/2018 - 31/8/2020)

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, University of Sherbrooke (1/10/2015 - 10/8/2018)

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, ISBA, Université Catholique de Louvain (28/11/2014 - 1/10/2015)

  • Research Associate, Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University (4/1/2014 - 31/10/2014)

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics & Statistics, University of Alberta (1/9/2012 - 1/9/2013)

Research and professional activities

Research interests

Cure rate models

Open to supervise

Nonparametric/Semiparametric methods for multivariate length-biased and censored data

Open to supervise

Copulas and measures of dependence

Open to supervise

Time series and spectral analysis

Conferences and presentations

Conditional dependence under selection bias

Invited presentation, Departmental Seminar Lectures, Sherbrooke, Canada, 20/7/2023

Nonparametric dependence modelling under length-biased sampling and informative censoring

Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Royal Statistical Society International Conference, Aberdeen (UK), London, United Kingdom, 14/9/2022

Copula function and measures of dependence under length-biased sampling and informative censoring

Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Statistics 2021 Canada Conference, Montreal, Canada, 16/7/2021

Copula function and measures of dependence under length-biased sampling and informative censoring

Invited presentation, Departmental Seminar Lectures, Sherbrooke, Canada, 18/5/2021

Copula function and measures of dependence under length-biased sampling and informative censoring

Invited presentation, Departmental Seminar Lectures, Colchester, United Kingdom, 1/12/2020

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Statistics I (MA108)

  • Statistics II (MA200)

Publications

Journal articles (6)

Rabhi, Y. and Asgharian, M., (2021). A semiparametric regression under biased sampling and random censoring, a local pseudo-likelihood approach. The Canadian Journal of Statistics. 49 (3), 637-658

Rabhi, Y. and Bouezmarni, T., (2020). Nonparametric Inference for Copulas and Measures of Dependence Under Length-Biased Sampling and Informative Censoring. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 115 (531), 1268-1278

Bouezmarni, T., Van Bellegem, S. and Rabhi, Y., (2020). Nonparametric Beta Kernel Estimator for Long and Short Memory Time Series. The Canadian Journal of Statistics. 48 (3), 582-595

Bouezmarni, T., Rabhi, Y. and Fontaine, C., (2020). A semiparametric copula-based estimation of the regression function for right-censored data. Statistics. 54 (1), 46-58

Rabhi, Y. and Asgharian, M., (2017). Inference under biased sampling and right censoring for a change point in the hazard function. Bernoulli. 23 (4A), 2720-2745

Rabhi, Y. and Wiens, D., (2016). Robust sampling designs for a possibly misspecified stochastic process. Statistica Sinica. 26 (4), 1525-1542

Grants and funding

2024

Effects of the Pandemic on ECC workforce resilience

University of Essex (ESRC IAA)

Research Reboot / Research In Paris scheme 4

London Mathematical Society

Contact

yassir.rabhi@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 876293

Location:

2.524, Colchester Campus