Mahmoud A. Mahmoud
Current Position: / Professor, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.Languages: / Fluent in Arabic and English
Address: / El Tharwa El Maadanya St.-Hadayk El Ahram- Giza- Egypt
Phone: / 01225256204
Email: / or
Education:
2004 / Ph.D. in statistics, Department of Statistics, College of Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University State (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA, USA.Dissertation: “The Monitoring of Linear Profiles and the Inertial Properties of Control Charts,” Advisor: William H. Woodall.
1997 / M.Sc. in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
Thesis: “On Missing Values in Classification Analysis”
1992 / Bachelor of Science in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
Awards and Honors:
2014 / Scientific Excellence in the Social Sciences Award, Cairo University2013 / The Cairo University Award for supervising on the best M.Sc. thesis in Faculty of Economics and Political Science
2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 2014 / The Cairo University Award for international publication
2004 / The Fall Technical Conference Student Grant to attend the 48th Annual Fall Technical Conference, Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.
2000 / Awarded Soaad el Sabbah Scholarship to pursue study leading to the Ph.D. degree in Statistics in the United States.
Refereed Publications:
1. Zaher, A. M. , Haroun, A., H., and Mahmoud, M. A. (1998), ``On the Performance of Some Methods for Handling Missing Values in Classification Analysis'', The Egyptian Statistical Journal, 42 , 32-54.
2. Smith, E. P., Zahran, A., Mahmoud, M. A., and Keying, Y. (2003), "Evaluation of Water Quality Using Acceptance Sampling by Variables," Environmetrics, 14, 373-386.
3. Kim, K., Mahmoud, M. A., and Woodall, W. H., (2003),"On the Monitoring of Linear Profiles," Journal of Quality Technology, 35, 317-328.
4. Mahmoud, M. A. and Woodall, W. H. (2004), "Phase I Analysis of Linear Profiles with Calibration Applications," Technometrics, 46, 380-391. (Selected for the Technometrics session for the INFORMS annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 2004.)
5. Woodall, W. H. and Mahmoud, M. A. (2005), "The Inertial Properties of Quality Control Charts" Technometrics, 47, 425-436.
6. Zahran, A. and Mahmoud, M. A. (2005), " Regionalized Assessment of Standards-Frequentist and Bayesian Approach" Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 5-27.
7. Mahmoud, M. A., Parker, P. A., Hawkins, D. M., and Woodall, W. H. (2007), "A Change Point Method for Linear Profile Data” Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 23, 247-268.
8. Mahmoud, M. A., (2008), “Phase I Analysis of Multiple Linear Profiles.” Communication in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 37, 2106-2130
9. Mahmoud, M. A., Woodall, W. H., and Davis R. E. (2008), “Performance Comparison of Some Likelihood Ratio-Based Statistical Surveillance Methods” Journal of Applied Statistics, 35, 783-798.
10. Mahmoud, M. A., and El-Ghawas, N. A. (2008), “Monitoring Cardiac Surgical Performance Using Control Charts.” Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 187-207.
11. Mahmoud, M. A., and Zahran, A. (2010), “A Multivariate Adaptive Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart.” Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 39, 606-625.
12. Mahmoud, M. A., Morgan, J. P., and Woodall, W. H. (2010), "The Monitoring of Simple Linear Regression Profiles with Two Observations Per Sample” Journal of Applied Statistics, 37, 1249-1263.
13. Noorossana, R., Eyvaziana, M. Amirhossein A and Mahmoud, M. A. (2010), "Statistical Monitoring of Multivariate Multiple Linear Regression Profiles in Phase I with Calibration Application" Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 26, 291-303.
14. Mahmoud, M. A. and Woodall, W. H. (2010), "An Evaluation of the Double Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart" Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 39, 933-949.
15. Mahmoud, M. A., Henderson, G. B., Epprecht, E. K., Woodall, W. H. (2010), "Estimating the Standard Deviation in Quality Control Applications." Journal of Quality Technology, 42, 348-357.
16. Ho L. L., Mahmoud, M. A., and Kim, R. W. (2010), "Monitoring the Parameters of the Market Model by Linear Profile Procedures." Economic Quality Control, 25, 81-96.
17. Mahmoud, M. A. and Maravelakis, P. E. (2010), "The Performance of the MEWMA Control Chart when Parameters are Estimated" Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 39, 1803-1817.
18. Mahmoud, M. A. (2012), "The Performance of Phase II Simple Linear Profile Approaches when Parameters Are Estimated." Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 41, 1816-1833.
19. Mahmoud, M. A. and Maravelakis, P. E. (2013), "The Performance of the Multivariate CUSUM Control Charts with Estimated Parameters" Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 83, 719-736.
20. Doaa, M. F. Mahmoud, M. A. and Maravelakis, P. E. (2013), "The Effect of Methods for Handling Missing Values on the Performance of the MEWMA Control Chart" Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 42, 1437-1454.
21. Saleh, N. A. Mahmoud, M. A. Abdel-Salam G. A. (2013), " The Performance of the Adaptive Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart with Estimated Parameters" Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 29, 595-606.
22. Hala H. E., Mahmoud, M. A., Chahir Z. (2013), "Access to Finance and Financial Problems of SMEs: Evidence from Egypt” International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 20, 287-309.
23. Hala H. E., Mahmoud, M. A., Chahir Z. (2013), "What Determine the Access to Finance of SMEs? Evident from the Egyptian Case" ERF Working paper No. 752, May.
24. Mahmoud, M. A. Saleh, N. A., Doaa, M. F. (2014), "Phase I Analysis of Individual Observations with Missing Data" Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 30, 559-569.
25. Hala H. E., Mahmoud, M. A., Chahir Z. (2014), "Small and Medium Enterprises in Egypt: New Facts from a New Dataset”, Journal of Business and Economics, 2, 1-29.
26. Aly, A. A., Mahmoud, M. A., Woodall, W. H. (2015), "A Comparison of the Performance of Phase II Simple Linear Profile Approaches when Parameters Are Estimated" Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 44, 1432-1440.
27. Saleh, N. A., Mahmoud, M. A., Keefe, M. J., Woodall, W. H. (2014), “The Difficulty in Designing Shewhart Control Charts with Estimated Parameters”. To appear in Journal of Quality Technology.
28. Mahmoud, M. A., Saad, A., El-Shaer, R. (2014), “Phase II Multiple Linear Profile with Small Samples Sizes”. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, DOI:10.1002/qre.1644.
29. Aly, A. A., Saleh, N. A., Mahmoud, M. A., Woodall, W. H. (2014), " A Reevaluation of the Adaptive Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart When Parameters are Estimated" Quality and Reliability Engineering International, DOI:10.1002/qre.1695.
30. Aly, A. A., Hamed, R., Mahmoud, M. A. (2014), “Optimal Design of the Adaptive Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart over a Range of Mean Shifts” Re-submitted to Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation.
31. Saleh, N. A., Mahmoud, M. A., Jones, L. A., Zwetsloot, I. M., Woodall, W. H. (2014), “Another Look at the EWMA Control Chart with Estimated Parameters”. To appear in Journal of Quality Technology.
32. Ahmed, A. A., Mahmoud, M. A., El-Gayar, S. M. (2014), “Robust M-Estimation for Linear Regression Models: Adaptive Aspect”. Re-submitted for publication to Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.
Chapters in Books:
Mahmoud, M. A. (2011), " Simple Linear Profiles" Chapter 2 of Statistical Analysis of Profile Monitoring, edited by R. Noorossana, A. Saghaei and A. Amiri, John Wiley & Sons, INC.
Work and Research Experience:
2013 / v "Customer Utilization and Satisfaction Study of Accredited Primary Health Care Facilities” Centre for Development Services and Ministry of Health and Population2013 / "Violence against Children: Quantitative Survey and Qualitative Assessment in Three Egyptian Governorates" Centre for Development Services and UNICEF
2013 / "Oral health status in Qatar and Egypt: an approach to develop a novel index for different tooth structure defects" Queen Medical, Qatar.
2012 / "Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program MICHIP/Egypt" , Centre for Development Services and SMART.
2012 / "Providing Value Chain Study for Furniture Industry in Egypt", Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Associates Ltd. “TAGConsult” and Social Fund Development (SFD).
2011 / "Egyptian Banking Institute" Statistical Consultant for the Survey Project "Small and Median Enterprises Survey in Egypt"
2010 / Instructor of the training course "Statistical Data Analysis with SPSS Package", Development Planning Center, MICA Qatar Consulting Services, Qatar (24-28 October).
2008-2011 / Communication For Healthy Living (CHL) project-USAID-Cairo"
Statistical Consultant-Monitoring and Evaluation of CHL activities in project areas.
2010 / “Water and Waste Water Sector Policy Reform Project" CH2MHILL. USAID- Statistical consultant
2009 / Market Research on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene 2009, Centre for Development Services and UNICEF.
2009 / HPAI H5N1 Bird-to-Bird Transmission: Knowledge, Practices, and Attitudes in Egypt 2009, Centre for Development Services and SAIDR.
2009 / Statistical consultant for the project "The Concept of Decentralization" Public Administration Research and Consultation Center, Faculty of Economics and Political Science-Cairo University-Egypt.
2008-2009 / MLPCs Perception of Decentralization 2009, Public Administration Research and Consultation Center, Faculty of Economics and Political Science-Cairo University-Egypt.
2008 / Menya and Fayoum Village Health Survey, Communication For Healthy Living (CHL) project-USAID-Cairo.
2008 / Egypt Health Communication Survey 2007, Communication For Healthy Living (CHL) project-USAID-Cairo.
2008 / "Water and Waste Water Sector Policy Reform Project" CH2MHILL. USAID- Statistical Analysis, Sampling Design, and Report writing (consultant)
2007 / The Children Challenge in the Mediterranean Area, Experiences and Perspectives in Child well-being promotion, carried out by CENSIS.
2006-2007 / "Collecting and Analyzing Studies Related to Family Development Fund in Egypt" Center for the Study of Developing Countries-Faculty of Economics and Political Science-Cairo University-Egypt
2006 / v Health Impacts of Water and Sanitation Services Improvement from the Secondary Cities Project, Egypt 2006, El- Zanaty & Associates.
2006 / v Empowering People with Disability through Community Development, Sharkia Goveronrate, Safour Village, 2006, El- Zanaty & Associates and JICA.
2006 / Results of Impact Management Survey in West Noubaria 2006, carried out for IFAD, West Noubaria Project.
2005 / Egypt Household Education Survey (2005) Carried out Under the Auspices of the National Population Council and the Institute of Resource Development Macro Inc.
2005 / "School-to-Work Transition in Egypt for Youth in the Age of 15-24 Years" Funded by the International Labour Office (ILO) - Research was conducted by El-Zanaty & Associates, 2005.
2005 / v National Immunization Day for The Eradication of Polio in Egypt 2005 (Post Campaign), Ministry of Health and Population and El Zanaty & Associates.
2005 / v Demographic And Health Profile Of Some Villages Of Upper Egypt (Fayoum Governorate) 2005, Ministry Of Health And Population, Communication For Healthy Living Program, El- Zanaty & Associates and Tulane University.
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2005 / v National Population Program Sustainability in light of the Phasing out of Foreign Funds 2005, El- Zanaty & Associates and National Population Council.
2002-2004 / "The Monitoring of Profiles", Partially Funded by National Science Foundation DMII, 2002-2004.
2001-2002 / Working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech.
2001 / "Evaluation of Methods for Standards Assessment", Water Resources Center, Virginia.
1997-2001 / Working as an associate lecturer in the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
1992-1997 / Working as a teaching assistant in the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
1992-1993 / Working as a Researcher in Cairo Demographic Center (CDC), Cairo, Egypt.
Presentations in Conferences:
March 2013 / "Robust M-Estimation for Linear Regression Models: Adaptive Aspect" Presented at the 25th Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.March 2012 / “The Performance of the Adaptive Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart with Estimated Parameters” Presented at the 24th Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
March 2011 / "The Performance of Phase II Simple Linear Profile Approaches when Parameters Are Estimated" Presented at the 23th Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
July 2009 / “On the Monitoring of Regression Profiles”, International Symposium on Statistical Process Control, Nantes, France
March 2009 / “The Monitoring of Simple Linear Regression Profiles with Two Observations Per Sample” Presented at the 21st Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
March 2007 / “A Multivariate Adaptive Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart” Presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
March 2006 / “Phase I Analysis of Multiple Linear Profiles.” Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
March 2005 / “Regionalized Assessment of Standards-Frequentist and Bayesian Approach.” Presented at the 17th Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
October 2004 / “Phase I Analysis of Linear Profiles with Calibration Application”, Invited paper for the Technometrics Session of the annual INFORMS conference, Denver, CO.
October 2004 / “A Change Point Method for Linear Profile Data”, Presented at the 47th Annual Fall Technical Conference, Roanoke, VA.
Professional activities:
2007-2011 / Participation in developing the strategic plan for the Faculty of Economics and Political Science- Cairo University, Universities Development Funding Project 2008-2012.2007-2009 / Coordinator of the Ford Foundation Grant project for developing 16 courses in the Department of Statistics - Faculty of Economics and Political Science-Cairo University"
2005-2011 / Preparing the yearly conference book for the Annual Conference on Statistics and Computer Modeling in Human and Social Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
Reviewer for international journals: / Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation,
Quality and Reliability Engineering International,
Journal of Applied Statistics,
Technometrics,
Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods,
Quality Engineering,
Computer and Industrial Engineering,
Journal of Quality Technology.
Editorial Board Member / Quality and Reliability Engineering International
The Scientific World Journal: Probability and Statistics
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