Department of Statistics

Afza Rasul

Afza Rasul
Afza Rasul

Lecturer
Department of Statistics
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Qualification

Degree

Institution

Year

Subject

M.Phil

University of the Punjab, Lahore

2009

Statistics

M.Sc.

University of the Punjab, Lahore

2005

Statistics

B.Sc.

Govt. College for Women Sheikhupura

2003

Mathematics A&B, Statistics

Intermediate

Govt. College for Women Sheikhupura

2001

General Science

Matriculation

Govt. Girls High School No. 2 SKP.

1999

Science


Experience

Date

Title

Organization

1st Nov 2010 to date

Lecturer

Lahore College for Women University, Lahore

23rd April 2009 to 31st Oct 2010

Lecturer

Government Degree College (W) Ferozewala, Sheikhupura (selected by Punjab Public Service commission)

Honor and Awards

  • Achieved HEC Faculty Development Scholarship (FDP) for PhD Studies
  • Achieved merit scholarship in Msc. Statistics

Graduate Students/ Postdocs/Undergraduate Students/Honour Students

Year

Degree

Name

2015-17

MS

Amna Shahjhan

2013-15

MS

Sehrish Hussain

2015-19

BS

Bisma Asghar

2014-18

BS

Faiza

2011-15

BS

Maira Ahsan Khan

2010-14

BS

Fayaka Bint-e-Nasir


Service Activity

  • Teaching Statistics at Undergraduate and Graduate level
  • Member departmental exam Committee
  • Annual Report compilation of Department
  • Record maintenance of faculty’s research publications

Brief Statement of Research Interest

Regression Analysis, Bio-Statistics, Generalized Linear Models, Demography, Fertility and Population studies

Articles published by refereed journals
  1. Asifa Kamal, Sadaf Malik, Hafsa Batool, Afza Rasul (2021). “Influence of Individual and Community-Level Associates of Contraceptive Use in Pakistan: A Multi-Level Mixed Effect Analysis (Pdhs 2017-18)”. Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews, 9(3) 764-775.
  2. Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Idrees, Azeem Mehmood Butt, Syed Mohsin Raza, Iram Amin, Afza Rasul, Samia Afzal (2020). “Blood-based gene expression profile of oxidative stress and antioxidant genes for identifying surrogate markers of liver tissue injury in chronic hepatitis C patients”. Archives of virology, 165(4) 809-822.
  3. Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Idrees, Azeem M Butt, Syed M Raza, Iram Amin, Afza Rasul, Samia Afzal, Sadia Zahid, Rabia Nawaz (2019) “Hepatitis C and G virus coinfection in Punjab, Pakistan: incidence and its correlation analysis with clinical data”European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology, 31(3) 389-392.
  4. Iram Amin, Shagufta Naz, Muhammad Shahid, Samia Afzal, Usman Ashraf, Asif Rasheed, Afza Rasul, Rabia Nawaz, Sadia Zahid, Iqra Almas, Khadija Zahid, Farkhanda Manzoor, Muhammad Idrees (2016). Inhibitory Effects of Thiazolide Compounds against Hepatitis C virus: in vitro Study. International Journal of Virology and Molecular Biology.6, 5(2): 27-33.
  5. Shahid M, Butt A, Amin I, Rasul A, Idrees M (2015) Gene expression profiling of human oxidative stress and antioxidant genes in patients with hepatitis C virus induced liver fibrosis. J. Viral Hepat.: 22.
  6. Shahid, M., Idrees, M., Nasir, B., Raja, A.J., Raza, S.M., Amin, I., Rasul, A., Tayyab, G U. (2014) “Correlation of biochemical markers and HCV RNA titers with fibrosis stages and grades in chronic HCV-3a patients” European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology. Volume 26(7), 788-794.
Book
  1. Rasul, A., Shahid, M., Gillani, G.M. “Factors Affecting Quality of Life among Breast Cancer Survivors (An Application of Ordinal Regression)” LAP Lambert Academic Publishing (Jun 28 2012) ISBN: 978-3-659-16233-6.
Papers published in refereed conference proceedings.
  1. Kamal, S., Gillani, G.M., Rasul, A. “An Assessment of Quality of Life Among Breast Cancer Survivors in Punjab Using Ordinal Regression.” Proceedings of Journal of American Statistical Association (JASA), USA Published in the proceeding of JASA 2010.
  2. Rasul, A., and Chand, S. “Statistical study of risk factors of smoking among students of the University of the Punjab, Lahore-Pakistan” (2006) First International Conference on Statistics and Operations Research Proceedings Vol: 1 pp:286-290 (Conference Publications)