Beliyar Ramdas Bhat was a professor and head of the department of statistics at Karnataka University, Dharwad

Dharwad

Dharwad, also known as Dharwar, is a city and a DISTRICT PLACE in India's Karnataka state.Dharwad is the administrative seat of the Dharwad District. The municipality of Hubli-Dharwad covers an area of 200.23 km²...

 for more than two decades. He was elected member of International Statistical Institute

International Statistical Institute

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, and Fellow of Royal Statistical Society

Royal Statistical Society

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Bhat a Havyaka Brahmin

Havyaka Brahmin

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 obtained his M.A. degree in mathematics from Madras University, and a M.A. degree in statistics from Karnataka University, Dharwar prior to working on his Ph.D. from Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 in 1961, his advisor was David Blackwell

David Blackwell

-Honors and awards:*President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1956*National Academy of Sciences, 1965*American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1968*Honorary Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, 1976*Vice President, American Statistical Association, 1978...

. 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 the past President of the Section of Statistics of the Indian Science Congress Association

Indian Science Congress Association

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