RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The research group in the Department works on wide variety of topics in theoretical and applied statistics including Distribution theory, Reliability Analysis and Time Series Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Survival Analysis, Demography, Chaos and Non-linear Time Series, TQM and ISO 9000, Experimental Design and Industrial Statistics.

Honours and Awards
Dr.K.Jayakumar	Jan Tilberg award for young Statistician by the International Statistical Institute in its annual Meeting held at Beijing, 1994.
Dr. N.Balakrishna	Commonwealth Research Fellowship (UK) for the year 1999-2000. UKEIRI Fellowship, UK for the year 2007
Dr.P.G.Sankaran	BOYSCAST Fellowship of DST, Govt. of India for the year 2000.
Dr.Ansa Alphonsa Antony	U.S.Nair Young Scientist award by Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, 2004.
Mr. Sudheesh Kumar  Kattumannil	U.S.Nair Young Scientist award by Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, 2006.
Collaboration University of Waterloo, Canada University of Birmingham, England University of Dalhousie, Canada University of New Brunswick, Canada Technical University, Dresden, Germany University of Warwick, England Indian Statistical Institute University of Pune Conferences/Seminars/Workshops organized a) Conferences/Seminars/Workshops organized by the Department International Conference on Quality Improvement through Statistical Methods, December 1996.   International Workshop on QS 9000, January 1997 National Conference on Reliability Analysis December 1999 Workshop on Cost of Quality and ISO 9000, January 2001 Workshop on six sigma for Quality Improvement, January 2002 International conference on Statistics in Industry and Business, January 2003 Two days workshop on Women and Health Literacy, Department of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India, July 2006.   National Seminar on Modeling and Analysis of Life time Data, Cochin University of Science and Technology, February 20-22, 2006.   IISA Joint Statistical Meeting and International Conference on Statistics, Probability and Related Areas, Cochin, January 2-5, 2007.   IISA Workshop on Financial Mathematics, Cochin, January 6, 2007 Two days workshop on Women and Health Literacy, Department of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India, July 2006.   National Seminar on Statistical Methods and Reliability Analysis, January 28-30, 2008 b) List of Refresher courses conducted by the Department during the last 5 years 26.02.1997 - 18.03.1997 Statistical Inference and Probability Theory 02.03.1998 - 25.03.1998 Theoretical Statistic 22.02.1999 - 17.03.1999 Statistical Methods 25.11.2004 - 16.12.2004 Applied Statistics     Distinguished Visitors Prof. Bovas Abraham, University of Waterloo, Canada Prof. A.J. Lawrance, University of Birmingham, UK Prof. R.P.Gupta, Dalhousie University, Canada Prof. R.D. Gupta, University of New Brunswick, Canada Prof. Ashis Sengupta, ISI, Calcutta Prof. J.V. Despande, University of Pune, Pune Prof. J.S. Rao, University of California, USA Prof. Albert Irle, University of Keil, Germany Prof. Thomas Mathew, University of Maryland, USA Prof. Wagner, University of Cincinnati, USA Prof. B.L.S Prakasa Rao, University of Hyderabad Consultancy assignments Hindustan paper corporation, Velloor, Kottayam - Process Control. Indian Aluminium Company, Eloor, Cochin- Reliability Assessment. FACT Ltd., Eloor, Cochin -Data Analysis and Design of Experiment. Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ernakulam - Technical Advice. The Rubber board-, Kottayam- Training in Multivariate Methods
Sponsored projects
a) Major Projects
Reliability Modeling and Analysis in Discrete time, DST - Prof. N.UnnikrishnanNair (completed) Modelling and Analysis of Preventive Maintenance by Reliability characteristics, DST - Dr.Asha Gopalakrishan (ongoing)
b) Minor Projects
Sequential estimation, UGC - Prof.N.Balakrishna (completed) Non-Gaussian Time Series, UGC - Prof.N.Balakrishna (completed) Reliability aspects of Pearson family of distribution, UGC – Dr.P.G.Sankaran (completed) Characterizations of weighted distributions using form-invariance property and reliability concept, UGC – Dr.S.M.Sunoj (completed) Multivariate geometric extensions, UGC – Dr.Asha Gopalakrishnan (completed)