M. C. Chakrabarti
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Mukund Chand Chakrabarti (Born - Died 1972) a statistician from Bengal
of the British India was the founder head of the department of statistics, University of Mumbai
India. He nurtured the department from its birth in 1948 till he died in 1972. The department of mathematics at University of Mumbai was established later in 1963 under the guidance of Professor S. S. Shrikhande
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Chakrabarti was known for his work in design of experiments
. He guided a number of students for their Ph.D.s in statistics from University of Mumbai. In 1972, Chakrabarti died of a heart attack in Mumbai.
Bengal
Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...
of the British India was the founder head of the department of statistics, University of Mumbai
University of Mumbai
The University of Mumbai , is a state university located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was known as the University of Bombay until 1996 when the city of Bombay was renamed as Mumbai. The affiliated colleges of the university are spread throughout the city of Mumbai and four coastal districts in...
India. He nurtured the department from its birth in 1948 till he died in 1972. The department of mathematics at University of Mumbai was established later in 1963 under the guidance of Professor S. S. Shrikhande
S. S. Shrikhande
Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande is an Indian mathematician with distinguished and well-recognized achievements in combinatorial mathematics. He is notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and E. T...
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Chakrabarti was known for his work in design of experiments
Design of experiments
In general usage, design of experiments or experimental design is the design of any information-gathering exercises where variation is present, whether under the full control of the experimenter or not. However, in statistics, these terms are usually used for controlled experiments...
. He guided a number of students for their Ph.D.s in statistics from University of Mumbai. In 1972, Chakrabarti died of a heart attack in Mumbai.
Select work
- A note on skewness and kurtosis, MC Chakrabarti - Bull Calcutta Soc Math, 1946
- M. C. Chakrabarti, On the C-matrix in design of experiments, J. Indian Statist. Assoc. 1 (1963), 8-23.
- On the use of incidence matrices of designs in sampling from finite populations, MC Chakrabarti - Journal of Indian Statistical Association, 1963
- On the ratio of the mean deviation to standard deviation, MC Chakrabarti - Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin
- [BOOK] Mathematics of design and analysis of experiments, MC Chakrabarti - 1962 - orton.catie.ac.cr