B. R. Bhat

Summary

Beliyar Ramdas Bhat was a professor and head of the department of statistics at Karnataka University for more than two decades. He was elected member of International Statistical Institute, and Fellow of Royal Statistical Society.

Beliyar Ramdas Bhat
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
InstitutionsKarnatak University
ThesisBayes Sequential Tests in Markov Chains (1961)
Doctoral advisorDavid Blackwell

Bhat obtained a M.A. degree in mathematics from Madras University in 1954, and a M.A. degree in statistics from Karnataka University,[1] prior to working on a Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1961. His advisor was David Blackwell.[2][3] Bhat was elected member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and South African Statistical Association. He was the Secretary, Editor and President of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics. He was also the past President of the Section of Statistics of the Indian Science Congress Association.

Selected works edit

  • Modern Probability Theory: An Introductory Textbook. New Delhi, India: Wiley Eastern. 1986. ISBN 0-85226-091-1.
  • Stochastic Processes and Statistical Inference. New Age International (P) Ltd. 1996. ISBN 81-224-0836-2.

References edit

  1. ^ "News and Notices". The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 30 (4): 1279–1286. 1959. ISSN 0003-4851. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Beliyar Ramdas Bhat". statistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Beliyar Bhat - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 3 March 2022.

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