Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh

Background

Ghosh, Bhaskar Kumar was born on February 10, 1936 in Dibrugarh, India. Son of Saroj Kumar and Usha Rani (Bose) Ghosh. came to the United States, 1961.

Education

During 1951 to 1955 he studied at the Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, the last two years being in the Statistics Honours BSc Program. There he received his first degree (Bachelor of Science, BSc) in statistics. During 1955 to 1959 he continued his studies of statistics in the PhD–program of the University College London.

With his dissertation “Sequential Analysis of Components of Variance in Hierarchical Classifications”, supervised by Norman Lloyd Johnson, he earned his PhD in 1959. Jointly with Harold Adolph Freeman he completed a monograph “An Introduction to Sequential Experimentation”, published 1961 as a US Army Technical Report.

Career

Then he worked as a Research Assistant at the University College London, as Statistician in the Atomic Power Consortium, London, and during 1960/61 as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Chelsea College London. In 1961 Ghosh moved to the USA and joined the Mathematics Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Although he published a series of interesting papers on distribution theory, density estimators etc. he was best known for his work on sequential analysis: International recognition found his monograph “Sequential Tests of Statistical Hypotheses”.

In 1982 he founded, jointly with Pranab Kumar Sen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), the journal “Sequential Analysis” and served as Co-Editor until 1995. Also jointly Sen, he published in 1991 the “Handbook of Sequential Analysis”. The emphasis was to cover most of the major developments of that theory (until 1990).

In 1968 Ghosh was Visiting Associate Professor at MIT and 1978/1980 Visiting Professor of Statistics at Virginia Tech. Ghosh was Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the Royal Statistical Society.

Achievements

• In 1986 he received, from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), the Humboldt Prize (Senior US Scientific Award) which allowed him to work as Guest Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Münster (Germany) during 1986/87 and again in 1992.

Works

• book

  • Sequential tests of statistical hypotheses

Membership

Fellow Royal Statistical Society, Institute Mathematics Statistics.

Connections

Married Hedwig Graf, 1960. Children: Monica, Anita, Rebecca.

Father:

Saroj Kumar Ghosh

Mother:

Usha Rani (Bose) Ghosh

Spouse:

Hedwig Graf

child:

Rebecca Ghosh

child:

Anita Ghosh

child:

Monica Ghosh