The Dept. of Statistics was established in 1967 with Dr. S.N.N. Pandit as the founder Professor & Head. Currently the department has seven (7) full time well qualified faculty members – four Professors and three Assistant Professors. The department has been recognized for its contribution towards the cause of the subject and has so far received financial assistance under DST-FIST (2004-2009), UGC Innovative Programme (2007-2012), SAP-DRS-I of UGC (2009-2014), SAP-DRS-II of UGC (2015-2020). Thrust areas of research of the department include Discrete Probability Distribution, Medical Statistics, Statistical Inference, Simulation, Quality Control, Demography, Econometrics and Statistical Ecology. The department has its own peer reviewed research journal “Assam Statistical Review” (ASR) since 1987.
Infrastructure Facilities
(i) Library (Departmental) Total no. of Books : 544 Nos.
(ii) Journal (Departmental) : 01 No.
(iii) Total no. of class rooms : 04 Nos.
(iv) Total no. of Seminar Halls with LCD : 02 Nos.
(v) Total no. of Computers for Students Researchers and Teachers : 30 Nos.
(vi) Computer Lab. : 02 Nos.
(vii) Lavatories : 05 Nos.
Professors
Dr. S.C. Kakaty [Head Of the Department]
Dr. Jiten Hazarika[Dean of Student Affairs,DU]
Assistant Professors
Mrs. Monimala Neog
Programmes Offered
M.A., M.Sc.
M.Phil / Ph.D.
Post Graduate Diploma in Statistical Techniques and Computation (PGDSTC)
Eligibility Criteria
M. A./M.Sc. : Graduate of any UGC recognized University securing (a) At least 40% marks in Major at the Degree Examination, Or (b) At least 50% marks in the subject and 45% marks in aggregate in case of Graduate offering general course.
PGDSTC Course : Graduate in any discipline (other than Statistics)
Duration of the Programmes
Intake Capacity
Phone No +91-373-2370334 ,
Email : e-mail : [email protected]
Seminars / Workshops / Training Programmes organized by the Department (2003 onwards):
Prof. J. Hazarika : Awarded Certificate of Appreciation by the Cancer Research Foundation, India for promoting Cancer Research in the North East India on 6th June, 2016.
Prof. S. Chakraborty : Member of the International Scientific committee of the 3rd ISM International Statistics Conference, ISM-III, 9-11 August 2016, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Research
Visitors:
2008:
Mr. Subash Chanda, Kotak Mahindra Inusurance, India.
Dr. Chakraborty, IIT, Guwahati, India.
Prof. Prasun Das,. ISI, Kolkata, India.
Prof. Arup Das,. ISI, Kolkata, India.
Prof. Alok Goswami, Theoretical Statistics Division, ISI Kolkata, India.
Prof. Anup Mazumdar, ISI, Kolkata
Prof. S.B. Nandi, Presidency College, Kolkata
2009:
Prof. B N Bharttcharjee, BHU, India
Prof. R C Yadav,BHU, India
2010:
Prof. A Roy Chowdhury, ISI, Banglore, India
Prof. Somnath Roy ISI, Bangalore, India
Mr. Sanjit Roy, ISI, Bangalore, India.
Dr. Prasun Das,. ISI, Kolkata, India.
Dr. H. K. Chatuvedi, NIMS, New Delhi, India
Prof. R. N. Misra, Patna University, India
Prof. R. K. Narendra Singh, RIMS, Manipur, India
Prof. Alok Goswami, Theoretical Statistics Division, ISI Kolkata, India.
2011:
Prof. R. K. Narendra Singh, RIMS, Manipur, India
Prof. B N Bhatacharjee, BHU
Prof. A. Biswas, ISI, Kolkata
Prof. TES Raghavan, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Dr. S. Chakraborty
Prof. J. Hazarika
Dr. M. P. Barman