Department of Statistics

About Department of Statistics

VISION OF THE DEPARTMENT:
To excel by providing quality education in Statistics and inculcating innovative thinking among students to contribute fruitfully in their respective spheres.

MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT:
To develop the Department as a Centre of Excellence to impart best knowledge of Theoretical and Applied Statistics.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT:
The Department of Statistics was established in 1964 as a part of Mathematics Department, and since 1974 it is an independent Department.

The Department offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. Courses in Statistics. The courses are designed to develop analytic and inferential aptitude of the students through theory and rigorous practical assignments along with exposure to practical training during the course of their study.

The Department has received financial support for its academic growth under COSIST, FIST and SAP scheme of UGC and DST of the Government of India. The Department has also been awarded the status of DSA (Department under Special Assistance) by UCG based on its excellence in Teaching and Research.

It is among one of the active departments in the country carrying out research in fields of Multiple Comparison Procedures, Reliability and Survival Analysis, Statistical Inference and Applied Statistics (Actuarial Statistics, Bio-Statistics, Econometrics and Income Distributions).

The Department has well equipped Computer laboratory with access to softwares like MINITAB, SPSS, SYSTAT, R, S-PLUS, PYTHON and STATGRAPHICS. The students are given training for usage of R and SPSS for solving their practical assignments.

Eminent Statisticians from India and other countries keep visiting the Department frequently for delivering lectures and research collaboration. The faculty members attend National and International conferences. Interaction with neighbouring industries in the field of process control and with institutes like PGIMER, GMCH, NIPER, IMTECH, CRRID, Census and NITTER etc. for providing research consultancy to doctors and researchers is another highlight of the Department of Statistics. The faculty members also collaborate with sister departments for research and data analysis.

The Department of Statistics has an independent Library which has on shelf more than 5000 books and access (offline & online) to about 20 journals.

THRUST AREAS OF THE DEPARTMENT INCLUDE:
Multiple Comparison Procedures
Reliability and Survival Analysis
Statistical Inference
Applied Statistics: Actuarial Statistics, Bio-Statistics, Econometrics and Income Distributions