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
Gauhati University in 1966 under the guidance of
Jyotiprasad Medhi, and DSc from Manchester in 1988. He was a specialist in
time series analysis
In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. ...
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 model Subba may refer to:
* Ṣubba, the name by which adherents to Mandaeism are known in the Middle East
* Limbu people, a Kirati people of Nepal
People with the surname
* Abhaya Subba, Nepali singer-songwriter and musician
* Dinesh Subba (born 1962) ...
s, and
Subba Rao Gabr window Subba may refer to:
* Ṣubba, the name by which adherents to Mandaeism are known in the Middle East
* Limbu people, a Kirati people of Nepal
People with the surname
* Abhaya Subba, Nepali singer-songwriter and musician
* Dinesh Subba (born 1962) ...
for bivariate spectra are named after him.
Subba Rao retired, but was given an emeritus chair, in 2009 having worked at
UMIST
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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.
References
External links
* Home page at Mancheste
Mathematics Staff HomepageArchived version 2017
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1942 births
2018 deaths
British statisticians
Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Academics of the University of Manchester