Anirban DasGupta

Professor of Statistics

dasgupta@purdue.edu
Address:
150 N. University Street
MATH 548
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2068

Phone: (765) 494-6033
Fax: (765) 494-0558


Selected Recent Works

How many signals can we detect: Sensitive Thresholding in the Donoho-Jin Paradigm

A Recent Paper (2012) with S.N. Lahiri

One other Recent Paper (2011)

Revised Version of a Paper (2012) with Jordan Stoyanov

A Survey of Sufficiency (2012)

The L_p Norm of a Gaussian Vector

Columns in IMS Bulletin: Anirban's Angle

Reading the Classics

A New Core?

Berkeley and Indian Statistics

Learning from a Student

Mendeleef, Bode, and Precognition

Right or Wrong, Our Confidence Intervals

Understanding Citation Indices

Books and Lecture Notes

Statistical Theory: A Comprehensive Course, Volume One, In Reviews, Forthcoming

Table of Contents of Probability for Statistics and Machine Learning (Springer; Published May, 2011)
Fundamentals of Probability: A First Course
Asymptotic Theory of Statistics and Probability, Springer Verlag, New York
A Sourcebook on Probability
Lecture Notes on Mathematical Statistics
Lecture Notes on Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes







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Areas of Present Interest

Asymptotic theory and expansions, Asymptotics of regularized estimates, Extremes, Theory of Bayes, Probability inequalities.

Present Journal Editorships

Associate Editor, Annals of Statistics, 1998 - 2015
Contributing Editor, IMS Bulletin, 2011 - 2013
Co-Executive Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2012 - 2014
Co-Editor, Springer Series on Selected Works in Probability and Statistics, 2009 - Present
Associate Editor, Statistics Surveys of the IMS and the Bernoulli Society, 2007 - 2013
Associate Editor, Metrika, 2009 - Present

Education, Professional Honors and Societies

PhD, 1984, Indian Statistical Institute
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Elected 1993
Mathematical Association of America
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Bernoulli Society for Probability and Statistics
Chairman, Scientific Committee, Midwest Statistical Colloquium, 2007-09
Member, IMS Council, 2008-09

Teaching Recognitions

Elected one of the 10 Best Teachers in the School of Science; 1987-88; 1997-98

Past Editorial Work

Editor, Lecture Notes and Monograph Series, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2008-2009
Editor, Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collections and Volumes Series, 2008-2009
Associate Editor, Journal of American Statistical Association, 1996- 1999
Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 1996- 2003
Associate Editor, International Statistical Review, 1995-1997
Associate Editor, Sankhya, 1997-2005

Volume Editorships

Editor, Selected Works of D. Basu, Springer
Editor, The Herman Rubin Festschrift, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Editor, Basu Memorial Issue of Sankhya, Parts I and II

Courses Taught

Statistics for Technology, Statistical Methods, Applied Linear Regression, Experimental statistics, Applied multivariate analysis, Time series, Probability theory, Probability for management, Statistical inference, Mathematical statistics, Decision theory and Bayesian analysis, Advanced estimation, Advanced testing, Bootstrap, Asymptotic theory, Nonparametric statistics, Inference for Stochastic processes, Spline smoothing, Tools of simulation, Calculus, Advanced calculus, Linear Algebra.

My Coauthors

Larry Brown, Herman Rubin, Larry Shepp, Bill Studden, Jim Berger, Tony Cai, Dimitris Politis, George Casella, Bill Strawderman, Jim Zidek, Jordan Stoyanov, J.K. Ghosh, Len Haff, John Marden, S.N. Lahiri, Brani Vidakovic, Arup Bose, Sanjib Basu, Gene Hwang, Christian Genest, Bimal Sinha, Alan Gelfand, Dipak Dey, Hyun-Sook Oh, Mei-mei Zen, S. Mukherjee, Wen-Chi Tsai, M. Dalampady, John Peterson, Suzanne Lorenz, Laura Cayon, Weizhen Wang, Chuanbo Zhang, Tonglin Zhang