Mukunda Chandra Chakrabarti (31 January – 22 June 1972) a statistician from

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

of the

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

was the founder head of the department of statistics,

University of Mumbai The University of Mumbai is a collegiate university, collegiate, State university (India), state-owned, Public university, public research university in Mumbai. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the un ...

India. He nurtured the department from its birth in 1948 until 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 Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande (19 October 1917 – 21 April 2020) was an Indian mathematician with notable achievements in combinatorial mathematics. He was notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their di ...

. Chakrabarti was known for his work in

design of experiments The design of experiments (DOE, DOX, or experimental design) is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. The term is generally associ ...

. He guided a number of students for their Ph.D.s in statistics from University of Mumbai. He was also associated with

University of Pune Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Poona, is a collegiate public state university located in the city of Pune, India. It was established in 1949, and is spread over a campus in the neighbourhood of Ganeshk ...

where his notes on

were taught and he used to come as external examiner for the practical examination. 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 *

OOK Ook, OoK or OOK may refer to: * Ook Chung (born 1963), Korean-Canadian writer from Quebec * On-off keying, in radio technology * Toksook Bay Airport (IATA code OOK), in Alaska * Ook!, an esoteric programming language based on Brainfuck * Ook, th ...

Mathematics of design and analysis of experiments, MC Chakrabarti – 1962 – orton.catie.ac.cr

References

External links

Encyclopaedia of Design Theory: Bibliography

Review: M. C. Chakrabarti, Mathematics of Design and Analysis of Experiments
1972 deaths Indian statisticians People from Dhaka University of Dhaka alumni Bengali mathematicians 20th-century Indian mathematicians 1915 births {{India-academic-bio-stub