Dahir Abdi Ali

• M.Sc. In Applied Statistics at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
• B.Sc. in Applied Statistics at Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU).

Mr. Dahir Abdi Ali is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Economics at SIMAD University & Director of the Somali Statistical Association (SSA). He studied M.Sc. In Applied Statistics at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and B.Sc. in Applied Statistics at Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU). He is actively involved in different stages of data collection surveys, data management, and data analysis and reporting. He also led training sessions related to mobile data collection using Kobo Collect or ODK, Data management, and data analysis using different statistical packages including (but not limited to) Excel, XLSTAT, SPSS, STATA, MINITAB, EPI-INFO, Power BI, Nvivo, and R programming. Moreover, he conducted several academic research projects whose findings were published in Scopus-indexed international journals.

• Biostatistics
• Biotechnology
• Data Analysis
• Data Science

• Data Analysis
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Automated Data Collection
• Biostatistics
• Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design

• University Membership Committees

• Hussein, A. M., & Ali, D. A. (2022). The Role of International Trade and Agricultural Production on Economic Growth in Somalia: Johansson Cointegration Approach. African Journal of Business and Economic Research, 17(4), 123. https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a6
• Mohamed, J., Ali, D. A., Warsame, A. A., & Adam, M. B. (2022). Two phases of a long-term shift in extreme precipitation in Somalia. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 134(3), 54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-022-00896-4
• Ali, D. A., Mohamed, J., & Midi, H. (2022). Modeling the Determinants of Unemployment Exit Duration among Graduates in a Fragile State: A Case of Somalia. Journal of Somali Studies (JoSS), 9(2). https://doi.org/10.31920/2056-5682/2022/v9n2a2
• Abdi Ali, D., Mohamed Dahir, A., & Midi, H. (2022). On the interactions among environmental degradation, energy consumption, and economic growth: a time–frequency analysis using wavelets. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2022.2044697
• Ali, D. A., & Sani, M. (2021). Short-term Forecasting of Cumulative Confirmed Covid-19 Cases Pandemic in Somalia. Journal of Applied Science, Engineering, Technology, and Education, 3(2), 211-216. https://doi.org/10.35877/454RI.asci142
• Ali, D. A., & Midi, H. (2020). On the Robust Parameter Estimation Method for Linear Model with Autocorrelated Errors in the Presence of High Leverage Points and Outliers in the Y-Direction. Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Science.