Department of Statistics

Department of Statistics was established in 1979 with one Professor under the erstwhile Post - Graduate Autonomous Centre of University of Madras. Initially, two research programmes leading to Ph.D., and M.Phil., Degrees in Statistics were offered in the Department with two fields of research specialization, namely Statistical Quality Control and Statistical Inference.

The members of faculty have proved their mettle demonstrating quality teaching and fetching out research publications in the Journals of International Repute. The faculties in the department have many research publication to their credits and have publications in the journals of International / National repute, which include Science Citation Index (SCI) journals, such as Journal of Quality Technology, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Communications in Statistics, and the journals indexed by Zentralblatt and Mathematical Reviews. 

Since its inception, with the continued efforts of faculty members, the department has produced many Doctoral and M.Phil., degrees besides Post Graduates. Research scholars of this department received prestigious national level fellowships from UGC - CSIR after qualifying through NET and INSPIRE fellowship from DST to pursue the research programmes. The department extends its support to the post-graduate students of other disciplines offering elective and supportive courses under Choice Based Credit System. 

The members of faculty are well associated with Professional and Academic Bodies in Statistics at the International / National level and also have represented in the Administrative and academic Bodies of this University like Syndicate, Senate, Standing Committee on Academic Affairs and Board of Studies etc., and held administrative positions. They are actively engaged in interaction with the academics of various Institutions / Universities across India to enrich their skills and knowledge in statistics education as a whole.

• Statistical Quality Control
• Reliability Sampling
• Biostatistics
• Survival Analysis
• Statistical and Time Series Modeling
• Multivariate Data Analysis
• Robust Statistics and Estimation
• Statistical Inference and Stochastic Processes.

Other research specialization of the department includes

• Agricultural Statistics 
• Econometrics and Development Planning.

The major thrust areas of research include

• Product Control
• Reliability Sampling 
• Robust Estimation 
• Survival Analysis and Bayesian Inference

1979 : Department was established under the erstwhile Post - Graduate Autonomous Centre of University of Madras with two research programmes, namely M.Phil. and Ph.D.

1988 : A new programme M.Sc. Applied Statistics was started.

2003 : Another programme M.Sc. Statistics with Computer Applications was started.

2008 : M.Sc. Statistics programme was started.

1.   Prof. V. Soundararajan (1979-1999)
2.   Dr. C. Venkateswara Rao (1981-1984)
3.   Prof. K. K. Suresh (1985-2018)
4.   Dr. K. Govindaraju (1988-1996)