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. Bipin Gogoi

Dr. S.C. Kakaty  [Head Of the Department]

Dr. Jiten Hazarika[Dean of Student Affairs,DU]

Dr. Subrata Chakraborty

Assistant Professors

Mrs. Monimala Neog

Dr. Manash Pratim Barman

Dr. P. J. Hazarika

Dr. Supahi Mahanta

Dr. Irani Saikia

Programmes Offered

1. M.A., M.Sc.

2. M.Phil / Ph.D.

3. Post Graduate Diploma in Statistical Techniques and Computation (PGDSTC)

Eligibility Criteria

1. 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.

2. PGDSTC Course : Graduate in any discipline (other than Statistics)

Duration of the Programmes

1. M.A./M.Sc. : 2 years (4 Semesters),
2. M.Phil         : 1½ years
3. PGDSTC    : 1 Year (2 Semesters)

Intake Capacity

1. M.A./M.Sc. : 20 (twenty)
2. M.Phil         : 05 (five)
3. PGDSTC     : 15 (fifteen)

Phone No +91-373-2370334 ,
Email : e-mail : [email protected]

Seminars / Workshops / Training Programmes organized by the Department (2003 onwards):

1. National Seminar on “Recent Development in Statistical Methods and Operations Research” March, 20-21, 2003, Sponsored by RBI, Mumbai, DST, OIL, ONGC.
2. Regional Workshop on “Survival Analysis, June 12-13,2003 Sponsored by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
3. Regional Workshop on “SQC and OR Concepts and Methodology” Oct. 04-06, 2004 Sponsored by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
4. Two days Regional workshop on Bioinformatics, March, 2004, Sponsored by UGC and ICMR, New Delhi.
5. State level workshop on “Application of Statistics in Social and basic Sciences”, 14th Dec., 2006, Sponsored by Dibrugarh University.
6. Workshop on Mathematical Programming and Related Topics on Optimization – Methods, Applications and Practices, Nov. 12 –14, 2007 Sponsored by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
7. Organized one Refresher course for UG/PG teachers of Indian Universities during 2004
8. One week Training Programme in Actuarial Science, Dept. of Statistics, D.U. March 25 - 29, 2008
9. Training Programme on Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Organized by Department of Statistics, D.U., in Association With SPSS, South Asia, Bangalore, September 19 – 20, 2008
10. DST sponsored Summer School 1 – 30 July, 2009.
11. Certification programme on Six-Sigma Green Belt in collaboration with I.S.I., Bangalore, 2010
12. State level workshop onWorkshop on Statistics in Industries and Health Sciences with Special Reference to North-East India, Sponsored by Dibrugarh University, 2010
13. National Seminar on Bio- statistics, under SAP, Sponsored by UGC, February, 2010.
14. Certification programme on Six-Sigma Green Belt in collaboration with I.S.I., Bangalore, 2011
15. Training programme in Numerical and Statistical computation using MATLAB Software, March 21-25, 2011.
16. Workshop on “Statistics in Clinical Trial” (November 17-18, 2011) organized by Dept. of Statistics, Dibrugarh University.
17. National Seminar on “Biostatistics” (November 26th, 2011) organized by Dept. of Statistics, D.U. (Under DRS-I, SAP of the UGC).
18. One Day Workshop on “Creating Awareness about Official Statistics in India” (March 3rd, 2012) organized by Dept. of Statistics, Dibrugarh University and sponsored by National Academy of Statistical Administration (NASA), Greater Noida, UP.
19. A two-day national seminar entitled “Recent Trends in Theoretical and Applied Statistics – I (RTTAS – I)” under the UGC SAP DRS – II was organized by the Department of Statistics, Dibrugarh University during 11 – 12 March, 2016
20. A three day national workshop entitled “Basics of Software Development” under the UGC SAP DRS – II was organized by the Department of Statistics, Dibrugarh University from 29th to 31stMarch, 2016. 

• 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.