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University of Kerala

One of the first 16 Universities in India, the University of Kerala was founded as the University of Travancore in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore by His Highness Sri. Chithira Thirunal Maharaja in 1937. At present, the University has sixteen faculties (subject groups) and forty two departments of teaching and research in addition to study centres and other departments. The Manuscript Library of the University is a treasure trove of Indian culture. The library has over 65,000 works in 30,000 copies mainly of palm leaf manuscripts, in addition to paper manuscripts, copper plates, birch bark and textiles, which includes those belonging to Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal etc. The Adult Education Department of the University has received UNESCO- NLM award in 2005. The University Library established in 1942 has over 3,00,000 books and gives access to over 9000 on-line journals. The University has published an English translation of the classic Dutch work, “Hortus Malabaricus” a 20-volume treatise on plant wealth of Kerala, in 2003.

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Department of Statistics

This department is the second oldest post-graduate department of Statistics in India, established in 1945 based on the recommendation of a committee consisting of eminent members including Prof P. C. Mahalanobis. Dr U. S. Nair was the Founder Professor of this department followed by eminent successors Dr Aleyamma George, Dr R. Krishna Pillai, Dr R. Ramakumar, Prof P.S.J. Nair, Dr Jacob Sundara Raja, Dr R. N.Pillai, Dr T.S. K. Moothathu, Dr P. Yageen Thomas, Dr G. Lesitha and Dr C. Satheesh Kumar. The Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi has identified this department under its FIST Programme. The Department offers M.Sc. (Statistics), M.Sc.(Applied Statistics and Data Analytics) and M.Phil.(Statistics) degree programmes as well as research leading to Ph.D. degree in Statistics. The Department has MoUs with Georgian Technical University, Georgia (Academic Collaboration), Cognub Decisions Solutions Pvt Ltd, Technopark Campus, Trivandrum (Industrial Collaboration), The State University of New Jersey, USA (Academic Collaboration; towards final stage) and another MoU is under processing with University of Patras, Greece. This department has moulded several reputed statisticians like Prof K. C. S. Pillai, Prof A. M. Mathai, Prof Thomas Mathew and so on. The major contributions of this department are in the areas: Distribution Theory, Inequality measures, Order Statistics, Point estimation, Reliability Theory, Stochastic Process, Time Series etc. Research papers are published regularly from this department in refereed journals in Statistics and have been extensively cited in the latest Statistical publications.