DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
(Sponsored by Department of Science and Technology,
Govt. of India, under DST - FIST Scheme 2002)
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International Award for our Researcher

ICMS 2011: "International Conference on Mathematical Sciences in honour of  Professor A.M.Mathai”, January 3-5, 2011

       Started in the year 1953 as part of the Dept of Maths with Prof. P.C. Joseph as Head, the Department of Statistics became an independent one with Prof. K. Ramakrishna Pillai as head in 1970. The pioneers of this Department include Dr. A. M. Mathai, Prof. V. K. Iganatius, Prof. K. G. Panicker, Prof. Thomas Mathew and Prof. V. N. Sukumaran. It became a research center under M.G. University in 1997.This department is proud of its alumni like Dr. N.U. Nair, Dr. Bovas Abraham, Dr. C.P. Kartha, Dr. K.R.M.Nair, Dr. V.K.R. Nair, Dr. N.J. Kurian, Shri T.K. Jose I.A.S, Sri James Mathew I.S.S. etc. This department has produced over 40 UGC-CSIR JRF’s and 20 ISS officers. This department has 4 research guides, produced 7 Ph.D’s, over 100 research papers in International/ national journals and conducted many symposia. It has 2 major and 3 minor UGC Projects, and DST-FIST support and UGC Innovative programme amounting to Rs. 90 lakhs to its credit.

Courses:    M.Sc. Statistics (1959),                  M.Sc. Biostatistics (2005)                 Ph.D (1997)