Ajmery Jaman, a lecturer at the Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT) of Dhaka University, has won the first prize in the 2015 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards Competition for young statisticians from developing countries.

She received the award for her paper "A Bias-Corrected Approach to Rotnitzky Jewell Criteria for Appropriate Correlation Structure Selection in Generalized Estimating Equations".

The work was carried out under the supervision of Prof Mahbub Latif of ISRT. The other collaborators of the work  were Prof Abdus S Wahed of the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and Prof Wasimul Bari, Dhaka University, said a DU press release.

The Jan Tinbergen Awards are named after the famous Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) who won the Nobel economics prize in 1969.

In addition to a cash prize, generously provided by the Dutch "Stichting Internationaal Statistisch Studiefonds", the winners receive support to enable their participation in the next International Statistical Institute (ISI) World Statistics Congress and present their winning papers.

Jaman graduated in applied statistics from ISRT, DU.