Prof. Arup Bose selected for National Award in Statistics
For his outstanding contributions to Statistics, Dr. Arup Bose of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata has been selected for the National Award in Statistics in honour of Prof. C.R. Rao for the year 2002-2003. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. one lakh. Professor Arup Bose has been selected in the young statistician category.
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation has instituted two National Awards in Statistics for outstanding contribution in the field of Statistics, which are given in alternate years. One award is given to a senior statistician in memory of Prof. P.V. Sukhatme and the other to a young statistician in the honour of Prof. C.R. Rao.
Dr. Arup Bose has made significant research contributions in several diverse areas, including resampling plans, sequential analysis and asymptotics. He has also made substantial contributions to statistics of diffusion processes, rates of convergence, multinomial selection problems, strong laws, U statistics and Mm estimates.
Dr. Bose’s work in resampling provides a deep and powerful understanding of the subject from the applied as well as the theoretical point. This work has had significant impact on areas such as time series, linear models, general dependent models and nonparametric estimates.
Sample data are used to obtain estimates. The method of resampling uses the data in a repetitive fashion to get the detailed statistical properties of estimates that are essential to make valid statistical inferences. The work of Prof. Bose on resampling shows how this can be achieved even when the models being used are quiet complicated and the number of observations available is relatively small compare to the number of parameters being estimated.
A dedicated teacher, Dr. Bose is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), USA, which is one of the world’s leading international societies of statistics. He is also the Editor of prestigious statistics journal Sankhya.
The first National Award in Statistics in memory of Prof. P. V. Sukhatme was given in 1999-2000 to Prof. J. K. Ghosh, distinguished statistician and former Director, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata followed by the National Award in Statistics, for the young statistician category, given for the year 2000-2001 jointly to Dr. Rahul Mukerjee, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and Dr. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi for their outstanding contributions to Statistics . For the year 2001-2002, the National Award in Statistics in memory of Prof. P.V. Sukhatme was given to Prof. Prem Narain, former Director of Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi.
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