Tata Subba Rao (1942 – 13 April 2018] was a professor of statistics in the

School of Mathematics, University of Manchester The Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester is one of the largest unified mathematics departments in the United Kingdom, with over 90 academic staff and an undergraduate intake of roughly 400 students per year (including students ...

. He gained his MA at Karnatak, his PhD from

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in 1966 under the guidance of

Jyotiprasad Medhi Jyotiprasad Medhi was a professor of statistics at Gauhati University and Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology. Work and education Medhi started his schooling in Dibrugarh and in 1940 he passed matriculation from Dibrugarh Gover ...

, and DSc from Manchester in 1988. He was a specialist in

time series analysis In mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in m ...

especially non-stationary and non-linear time series analysis, higher order spectral analysis, theory of random fields, time series methods for analysis of environmental variables (detection of climatic changes etc.) and multivariate nonlinear models. The Subba Rao–Liporace models, and Subba Rao Gabr window for bivariate spectra are named after him. Subba Rao retired, but was given an emeritus chair, in 2009 having worked at

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and the University of Manchester for 42 years. He published over 70 papers and supervised 15 PhD students. Even after retirement he remained active.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Subba Rao, Tata 1942 births 2018 deaths British statisticians Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom Academics of the University of Manchester