University of Calcutta - Department of Statistics

12/10/2025

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24/02/2025

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27/06/2024

18/06/2024

We deeply mourn the sad demise of Professor Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee, Former Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta.
National Lecturer in Statistics (1985–1986) of the University Grants Commission, India,
The President of the Section of Statistics of the Indian Science Congress (1989),
Emeritus Scientist (1997–2000) of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0710.4675

23/08/2023

Time has finally claimed C.R.Rao, the most recognised Indian Statistician in academia! A few months back he received the "Noble prize in Statistics", as mentioned in our last post.
A stalwart who is in no way less than an institution himself, let us not forget that his statistical journey started at Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta on 1941 as a student of the first ever postgraduate batch in Statistics in all over Asia. On this mournful day let us not forget to celebrate his almost 103 years of earthly life and immense contribution to the field of Statistics.
Also let us not forget about his teacher of Statistics at University of Calcutta Late Anil Kumar Bhattacharya who allegedly had developed one of the famous research work named after C.R.Rao, the Cramer-Rao Lower bound!
Let us not forget about his batchmate Late Hari Kinkar Nandi who secured a very close 1st class 2nd while C R Rao secured the 1st class 1st. Whereas C R Rao was the Ph.D. Scholar of "The Father of Modern Statistics" the legendary R.A.Fisher, H.K.Nandi had no formal Ph.D. degree yet had Ph.D. scholars like S.K.Chatterjee, P.K.Sen, J.K.Ghosh and many more.

30/06/2023

Late Update.

The Indian-American statistician Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao has been awarded the 2023 International Prize in Statistics, which is statistics’ equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

He received MA in Statistics from University of Calcutta in 1943.

The Indian-American statistician C.R. Rao has been awarded the 2023 International Prize in Statistics. His work has influenced “economics, genetics, anthropology, geology, national planning, demography, biometry, and medicine”.

29/06/2023

Wish you all National Statistics Day (June 29) to honor the work of the father of Indian Statistics, Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.

Our postgraduate Department of Statistics started functioning from July, 1941 with Prof. Mahalanobis as the HOD and Profs. R.C. Bose and S.N. Roy.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA,[5] FASc,[6] FRS[2] (29 June 1893– 28 June 1972) was an Indian scientist and statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first Planning Commission of free India. He made pione...

04/01/2022

Remembering UB sir.

20/10/2021

A nice article we may relate to. Thanks to the author.

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24/04/2021

Another sad day. Covid-19 has claimed Professor Aditya Chattopadhyay. His untimely demise has saddened all of us.