Paravastu Aananta Venkata Bhattandha Swamy (born 1934) is an

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n-born

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. His research focused on econometric issues such as the simultaneous presence of measurement error, misspecified functional forms, and omitted variables. After earning a B.A. in economics from

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, India, in 1956, both an M.A. in economics and a M.S. in statistics from the same university in 1958, Swamy attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He finished his Ph.D. dissertation under the supervision of

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in 1968. He then followed a conventional academic path leading from assistant professor at

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in 1967 to Professor at

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in 1972. In 1974, Swamy joined the

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where he worked, first as an Economist, and then as a Senior Economist, in the Division of Research and Statistics until 1995.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Swamy, P. A. V. B. 1930s births Living people Indian statisticians University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Ohio State University faculty 20th-century Indian mathematicians University at Buffalo faculty