B. L. S. Prakasa Rao

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'''Bhagavatula Lakshmi Surya Prakasa Rao''' is an Indian statistician. He was born on 6 October 1942 in [[Porumamilla]], [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Bose|first=Arup|title=Econometric Theory|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=640C328835CFFA6D7A44FEA72AD2894C.journals?fromPage=online&aid=8205407|work=Econometric Theory / Volume 27 / Issue 02 / April 2011, pp 373–411|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref> He completed his B.A. (Honours) course in [[Mathematics]] from [[Andhra University]] in 1960 and moved to the [[Indian Statistical Institute]], [[Kolkata]], where he completed his M.Stat in [[Statistics]] in 1962. He graduated with a Ph.D in [[Statistics]] in 1966 from [[Michigan State University]] under [[Herman Rubin]]. He won the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science in 1982 and the Outstanding Alumni award from Michigan State University in 1996. He is an elected Fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]] (1983), [[Indian National Science Academy]] (1984), [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] (1992), and [[National Academy of Sciences, India|National Academy of Sciences]] (1993).

==Academic life==
He worked at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in the beginning of his career and later moved to [[Indian Statistical Institute]], New Delhi. He was a Distinguished Scientist and Director of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata from 1992 to 1995. He also held visiting professorships at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[University of Illinois]], [[University of Wisconsin]], [[Purdue University]], [[University of California, Davis]] and [[University of Iowa]]. He has held the Jawaharlal Nehru Chair Professorship (2006–08), Dr. Homi J. Bhabha Chair Professorship (2008–12) at the University of Hyderabad, and the Ramanujan Chair Professorship (2012–17) at [http://www.crraoaimscs.org/ CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science]. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of the Indian Statistical Institute, and an [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Senior Scientist at the [http://www.crraoaimscs.org/ CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science].

==Books==
Among the books he has authored are:<ref>{{cite web|title=Books Published|url=http://www.crraoaimscs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Books-published.pdf|publisher=[[University of Hyderabad]]}}</ref>

* Associated Sequences, Demimartingales and Nonparametric Inference, Birkhauser, Springer, Basel (2012), ix +272 pp.
* Statistical Inference for Fractional Diffusion Processes, John Wiley, Chichester (2010), xii +252 pp.
* A First Course in Probability and Statistics, World Scientific, Singapore,(2009). Reprinted by Cambridge University Press India Private Limited, Delhi (2010), xii + 317pp.
* Statistical Inference for Diffusion Type Processes, Arnold, London and Oxford University press, New York (1999), xvi+ 349pp.
* Semimartingales and Their Statistical Inference, Chapman and Hall, London and CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida (1999), xi+532 pp.
* Identifiability in Stochastic Models: Characterization of Probability Distributions, Academic Press, Cambridge Mass. (1992). xiii + 253 pp.
* Asymptotic Theory of Statistical inference, Wiley, New York (1987). Reprinted by World Publishing Corporation, Beijing, China (1990). xiv + 438 pp.
* Non-Parametric Functional Estimation, Academic Press, Orlando, Florida (1983). xiv + 522 pp.
* Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes (Jointly with I. V. Basawa), Academic Press, London (1980). xiii + 433 pp.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.crraoaimscs.org/faculty/prakasa-rao/ B. L. S. Prakasa Rao]

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