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Rohana Ambagaspitiya

photograph of Rohana Ambagaspitiya

Job Title:

  • Associate Professor

Phone:

  • +1 (403) 220-7679

Office:

  • MS 556

Degrees:

Research Interests:

  • Renewal Risk Processes

Masters Students:

  • Lin Tan (2009)
  • Emmanuel Thompson (2009)
  • Chao Qiu (2007)
  • Zhiqiang Chen (2007)
  • Xian Zhou (2005)

Past Courses:

  • ACSC427 - LIFE CONTINGENCIES II
  • ACSC527 - LIFE CONTINGENCIES III
  • ACSC533 - CREDIBILITY THEORY AND LOSS DISTRIBUTIONS
  • ACSC535 - MATHEMATICS OF DEMOGRAPHY
  • ACSC539.5 - Special Topics in ACSC
  • ACSC53905 - FIXED INCOME SECURITIES
  • STAT211 - CONCEPTS OF STATISTICS
  • STAT213 - INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS I
  • STAT217 - Introduction To Statistics II
  • STAT437 - RISK THEORY
Representative Publications:
Preprint
Ambagaspitiya, Rohana. "On the aggregate survival probability of a portfolio with dependent sub-portifolios." (September 2003)
Journal Paper
Ambagaspitiya, Rohana. "Aggregate survival probability of a portfolio with dependent subportfolios" Insurance: Mathematics \& Economics 32.3 (2003): 431-443
Ambagaspitiya, Rohana. "On the distributions of two classes of correlated aggregate claims" Insurance: Mathematics \& Economics 24.3 (1999): 301-308
Ambagaspitiya, Rohana. "Compound bivariate {L}agrangian {P}oisson distributions" Insurance: Mathematics \& Economics 23.1 (1998): 21-31
Balakrishnan, N. and Ambagaspitiya, Rohana. "Classical classification procedure based on {$k$} dichotomous and one continuous variables" Parisankhyan Samikkha. An International Journal of Statistics 2.1 (1995): 1-11
Ambagaspitiya, Rohana. "A family of discrete distributions" Insurance: Mathematics \& Economics 16.2 (1995): 107-127
Balakrishnan, N. and Ambagaspitiya, Rohana. "A robust method of estimation based on the {MML} estimators for a simple linear regression model" Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 30.2 (1992): 267-279
Balakrishnan, N. and Ambagaspitiya, Rohana. "An empirical power comparison of three tests of exponentiality under mixture- and outlier-models" Biometrical Journal. Journal of Mathematical Methods in Biosciences 31.1 (1989): 49-66
Tiku, M. L., Balakrishnan, N. and Ambagaspitiya, Rohana. "Error rates of a robust classification procedure based on dichotomous and continuous random variables" Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation 18.2 (1989): 571-588
Balakrishnan, N. and Ambagaspitiya, Rohana. "Relationships among moments of order statistics in samples from two related outlier models and some applications" Communications in Statistics. Theory and Methods 17.7 (1988): 2327-2341