Department of Statistics

Dr. Sehar Saleem

Sehar Saleem
Sehar Saleem

Lecturer

Department of Statistics

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Education

  • Ph.D. (Statistics) (2021)     
    Institute: University of the Punjab, Lahore.
    Thesis: “Optimal Score Functions for Robust Estimation of Multilevel Models in the                 Presence of Outliers”      
  • M.S. (Statistics) (2011)      
    Institute: Uppsala University
  • Thesis: “Social Determinants of health status in U.S.A. civilians: An analysis of Medical           Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data”            
  • M.Sc. (Statistics) (2008) 
    University: University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 
  • BSc. (Statistics, Mathematics (A), Mathematics (B)) (2006)
    University: Punjab University, Lahore.                        

Professional Experience

  • Working as Lecturer (BPS-18) at Department of Statistics, Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) since 18-10-2017
  • Visiting lecturer in University of the Punjab taught the course Stochastic Process to MSc. (Operational Research) students in Fall 2015.
  • Visiting lecturer in National University FAST taught course Probability in Statistics and Business Statistics to civil engineers/BBA in Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016 and Spring 2016.

Awards & Honor

  • Won Research Productivity Award (RPA) for the publications of the year 2021.
  • Merit scholarship for Post-doctorate (Statistics) 2025 from HEC Phase II Batch III for conducting research at Durham University, UK.
  • Merit scholarship in PhD. Statistics from HEC, fully-funded scholarship for four years
  • Merit scholarship in PhD. Statistics from the University of Punjab’DPCC for one year
  • Merit scholarship in MSc. Statistics from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad
  • First Prize won by BS research student in poster competition “Let the Data Speak” held at 27th Oct 2021, in LCWU
  • Participated in the research poster competition with theme “Global Engagement Day: Embracing Diversity, Building Unity (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) at LCWU on 15 December 2023.

Area of Research

My Research area is Multilevel Models, Logistic Regression Models and Applied Statistics

Computer Skills

SPSS, Minitab, R-Language and Python, AMOS, LISREL, Power BI, SAS, Mathematica, Mendeley (Reference Manager Software)

Thesis Supervised
     BS-Level

  • “A Review and Empirical Comparison of Univariate Outlier Detection Methods” MahRukh Shaukat; 2019
  • “Factors Affecting Pregnancy Outcome in Using Pakistan Maternal Mortality Survey (PMMS) 2019” Sana Nazir; 2021
  • “Effect of Social Media Advertisement on Purchasing behavior: A response from Female Students and Faculty members of Public Sector Universities in Lahore” Sehar Imran; 2023
  • “A Descriptive Meta Analysis on Stroke Patients Age and Risk Factors from Pakistan” Shereen Khalid 2025.

     MS-Level

  • MS thesis successfully supervised “Determinants of stunting among children under five years of age evidence from Pakistan demographic and health survey (2017-2018)” by Kiran Sarfraz in 2023
  • MS thesis successfully supervised “A Comparative Study of Classical Techniques and Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting Coronary Heart Disease Based on Dietary Intake” by Rimsha Zahid in 2024
  • MS thesis successfully supervised “Assessing the Impact of Household Fuel Choices on Household Energy Expenditure using Machine Learning and Classical Approach: Evidence from Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) 2018-2019, Pakistan” by Warda Mukhtar in 2024

Membership

  • Member: Doctoral Committee of Statistics Department, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore

Publications

Paper Published
  • Saleem, S*., & Sherwani, R. A. K. (2020). Selecting and Estimating Rank Score Functions Based on Residuals for Linear Mixed Models. Punjab University Journal of Mathematics, 52, 47-63
  • Saleem, S.*, & Sherwani, R. A. K. (2021). Efficient Rank-Based Analysis of Multilevel Models for the Family of Skew-t Errors. Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, 17(1), 89-98.
  • Saleem, S.*, Sherwani, R. A. K., Amin M., Khalid M., Ali N. (2021). Development of New Robust Optimal Score Function for the Weibull Distributed Error Term in Multilevel Models. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Vol 2021, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/1953546
  • Saleem, S.*, Aslam M., Shaukat M. (2021). A Review and Empirical Comparison of Univariate Outlier Detection Methods. Pakistan Journal of Statistics, 37(4), 447-462
  • Saleem, S.*, Sherwani, R. A. K., Amin M. (2021). Development of a New Modified Hogg Type Adaptive Scheme for Multilevel Models with Diverse Error Distributions. Communication in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 52(8), 2735-2750. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2021.1959612
  • Afzal S., Afzal A., Amin M.*, Saleem S., Ali N., and Sajid M. (2021). A Novel Approach for Outlier Detection in Multivariate Data. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Vol 2021, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/1899225
  • Aslam, M., Saleem, S.*, Mukhtar, W., & Firdous, R. (2022). Assessing the household saving behavior of urban and rural households in Pakistan: Evidence from PSLM/HIES 2018-19. Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 10(4), 1439-1446.
  • Saleem S.*, Nazir S., Yasin S., Kamal A., Aslam M. (2023). Clinical Risk Factors Affecting the Pregnancy Outcome using Pakistan Maternal Mortality Survey (PMMS) 2019. Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences. 17(03), 168-171.
  • Saleem S., Aslam M., Sherwani R.A.K, Jadoon A.K.*, Sarwar A., Butt I. (2023). Determinants of Rural Household Poverty in Pakistan with Multilevel Approach. Cogent Economics and Finance, 11(1), 2202048.
  • Aslam M., Saleem S.*, Yasin S., Nazir S. and Chaudhary W.S. (2023). Determinants of stunting among children under five years of age: evidence from Pakistan demographic and health survey (2017-2018). Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, 17(03), 175-178.
  • Sattar, S., Tabassum, Y., Zahra, S. M., & Saleem, S. (2023). Gender Equality in Sports Participation: A Case Study of Transgender Athletes. Journal of Positive School Psychology, 6(12), 1978-1989.
  • Shujaat, N. G., Idris, S. H., Iqbal, S., Saleem, S., Haroon, M., & Ashraf, A. (2023). OHRQOL: Psychosocial & physical functioning in oral cancer patients. Pakistan Oral & Dental Journal, 43(2), 39-44.
  • Saleem, S.*,Yasin, S., Aslam M., Allah Ditta A. (2024). Evaluating risk factors for coronary heart disease among adults aged 26-45: A study from Punjab, Pakistan. Journal of Statistics 28, 56-65.
  • Nisar, U. B., ur Rehman, W., Saleem, S., Taufail, K., ur Rehman, F., Farooq, M., & Ehsan, S. A.(2024). Assessment of water quality using entropy-weighted quality index, statistical methods, and electrical resistivity tomography, Moti village, northern Pakistan. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 264 (2024) 104368.
  • Sehar Saleem, Sehar Imran (2025). Effect of Social Media Advertisement on Purchasing Behavior: A Response from Female University Students and Female Faculty Members. Journal of Media and Communication.
  • Maria Aslam, Sehar Saleem, Seyab Yasin, Rimsha Parveen, Warda Mukhtar (2025). Determinants of Social and Behavioral Factors Associated with Drug Abuse Among People in Rehabilitation Centers in Lahore. Journal of Statistics, 29 (64-81).
Working Papers
  • Sehar Saleem, Muhammad Meysami, Rimsha Zahid (2024). A comparative study of Classical Techniques and Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting Coronary Heart Disease Based on Dietary Intake
  • Sehar Saleem, Atif Khan Jadoon, Warda Mukhtar (2024). Assessing the Impact of Household Fuel Choices on Household Energy Expenditures using Statistical and Machine Learning Approach: Evidence from Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) 2018-2019, Pakistan.

Paper Presented in Conferences

  • Saleem S., Zahid R. (2024). A Comparative Study of Classical Techniques and Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting Coronary Heart Disease Based on Dietary Intake. Paper Presented at 1st International Conference on Statistical Sciences - May 9, 2024, Organized by Air University.
  • Saleem S., Mukhtar W., (2024). Assessing the Impact of Household Fuel Choices on Household Energy Expenditure using Machine Learning and Classical Approach: Evidence from Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) 2018-2019, Pakistan. Paper Presented at 1st International Conference on Statistical Sciences - May 9, 2024, Organized by Air University.
  • Saleem, S., Zahid R. (2023, December 14-15). Effect of social media advertisement on purchasing behavior: A response from female university students and faculty members. Paper Presented at 2nd international Conference on recent Trends in Statistics & Data Analytics -December 14-15, 2023, Organized by School of Natural Sciences NUST.
  • Supervised MS student presented the paper titled “Determinants of Child Malnutrition using Anthropometric Indices: A Quantile Regression Analysis of Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), Punjab, 2017-18” with collaborators Maria Aslam and Dr. Sehar Saleem at the International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina, Greensboro on 12 November, 2022.
  • Supervised BS student presented the paper titled “Applying OLS method and Quantile Regression to Assess the Household Saving Behavior in Rural and Urban Areas of Pakistan: Evidence from PSLM/HIES (2018-19)” with collaborators Maria Aslam and Dr. Sehar Saleem at the International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina, Greensboro on 12 November, 2022.
  • Saleem, S., Ditta A. A. (2022, March 9-10). Determining the Risk Factors of Coronary Heart Disease. Paper Presented at 2nd international Conference on Statistical Sciences-2022, GCU, Lahore.
  • Saleem, S., Jamil, Z. (2022, March 9-10). Association Between Symptoms and Causes of Valvular Heart Disease (VHD) in Adult Population. Paper Presented at International Conference on Statistical Sciences with special reference to the Survival Data Analysis, GCU, Lahore.
  • Saleem, S., Sarfraz, K. (17-19 March 2022). Determinants of child malnutrition using Anthropometric Indices: A Quantile Regression Analysis of Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), Punjab 2017-18. Paper Presented at 19th International Conference on Statistical Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
  • The paper titled “A Review and Empirical Comparison of Univariate Outlier Detection Methods” was presented at the 15th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-15) in December (21-24) 2019, Lahore Institute of Science & Technology, Lahore.
  • Supervised BS student presented the paper titled “Factors Affecting the Pregnancy Outcome Using Pakistan Maternal Mortality Survey (PMMS) 2019” in the AISC conference, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA on 8-10 Oct 2021
  • Presented paper at the 18th International Conference on Statistical Sciences on 18-20 February 2019.

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