Professor, Applied
Statistics Unit,
Indian Statistical
Institute.
Address : Applied Statistics Unit,
Indian Statistical Institute,
203, B.T.Road , Calcutta - 700 035,
West Bengal, India.
Phone: 91 33 577 8085/8086,
ext. 2816 (Office)
Professor at
Indian Statistical Institute since January 01,1982.Graduated from Calcutta
University with Honours in Statistics in B.A.,with Statistics in M.A. and
got Ph.D. in Statistics(in the area of Sample Survey) under Prof.H.K.Nandi's
supervision.
The main area
of research interest is 'Survey Sampling' and a subsidiary area is 'Realability
and Life Testing'.
Published three
research monographs :
'Unified
Theory and Strategies of Survey Sampling' (with J.W.E.Vos), 1988
( North
Holland).
'Randomized
Response : Theory and Techniques' ( with Rahul Mukherjee), 1988 ( Marcel
Dekker).
'Theory
and Methods of Survey Sampling' ( with H.Stenger), 1992 ( Marcel Dekker).
Contributed
one Chapter each to
'Current
Topics in Survey Sampling', 1981, Academic Press.
'Handbook
of Statistics' vol 6, 1988, North Holland.
Published about
90 research papers in standard Indian and Foreign journals. Many of them
jointly with research students and colleagues on 'Survey Sampling' and
'Reliability and Life Testing'.
Successfully
guided several Ph.D students.
Current research
interest : Mean square error estimation in multi-stage sampling, Analytical
study of complex surveys, Randomized response surveys and Small area estimation.
