December 26, 1997
Seminar Room 1
9:00 hrs - 10.00 hrs:	Inaugural Session: Chairman: Welcome Address: Inauguration: Address by Guest in Chief : Chairman's Remark: Vote of Thanks:	P. K. Sen S. K. Chatterjee (President, Calcutta, Statistical Association) P. N. Ray (Pro-Vice Chancellor, Calcutta University) S. B. Rao (Director, Indian Statistical Institute) P. K. Sen (Chairman, Organising Committee) K. Das (Convener, Organising Committee)
Seminar Room 1
10:00 hrs-11:00 hrs:	Prof. Anil Bhattacharyya Memorial Lecture: Chairman: Speaker:	Variations on a Bhattacharyya Theme J. K. Ghosh Barry C. Arnold
11:00 hrs-11:15 hrs:	TEA BREAK
11:15 hrs-13:00 hrs:	Technical Session I: Chairman: Seminar Room 1 Speakers: B. L. S. Prakasa Rao G. J. Babu N. R. Mohan M. Ahsanullah	K. R. Parthasarathy Cramer-Rao Type Integral Inequalities in Banach Spaces Title to be announced Geometric Max Semistable Laws, Geometric Max Domains of Attraction and of Partial Attractions. Some Characteristic Properties of Generalized Order Statistics from the Exponential Distribution.
	Technical Session II: Chairman: Seminar Room 2 Speakers: Subir Ghosh Sanpei Kageyama Dan Voss Sudhir Gupta	C. S. Cheng A New Analysis of the Two-Period Crossover Trial Data Two Classes of q-ary Codes based on Group Divisible Association Schemes Exact Confidence Intervals in the Analysis of saturated and Supersaturated Factorial Designs Some Characteristic Properties of Generalized Order Statistics from the Exponential Distribution.
13:00 hrs-14:00 hrs:	LUNCH BREAK
14:00 hrs-16:00 hrs:	Technical Session III: Chairman: Seminar Room 1 Speakers: Prabir Burman Y. K. Truong Probal Chaudhuri A. Dewanjee	P. K. Bhattacharyya Semiparametric Modelling od Seasonal Time Series Asymptotics for Hazard Regression On Piecewise Polynomial Regression Trees On Likelihood Based Nonparametric Smoothing and Cross Validation in Generalized Regression
	Technical Session IV: Chairman: Seminar Room 2 Speakers: Dipak K. Dey Saurabh Mukhopadhyay Y. P. Chaubey Kamal Chanda	Somesh Dasgupta Bayesian Analysis of Longitudinal binary Data Models Using Scale Mixture of Multivariate Normals Link Functions Nonparametric Bayesian Modelling in Does Finding Studies with Inference on Maximum Tolerated Does Tail-behaviour of Survival Functions and their Smooth Estimatiors Some Comments on Mixing Conditions for Stocastic Processes.
	Technical Session V: Chairman: Seminar Room 3 Speakers: M. C. Bhattachajee B. Das Kanwar Sen Tapan Nayak	M. Mazumdar A Framework for the Modelling and Analysis of Repairable Systems via Dynamic Programming Optimization of Censoring Strategies in Exponential Life-testing Busy Period Analysis of Bulk Queue G1/M/1 using Cox k-Phase Distribution On Statistical Modelling and Estimation of Software Reliability.
16:00 hrs-16:15 hrs:	TEA BREAK
16:15 hrs-17:45 hrs:	Technical Session VI: Chairman: Seminar Room 1 Speakers: B. R. Victor Babu Arto Luoma Rabindranath Das Sanjay Bandyopadhyay Anurup Majumdar	B. Adhikari Second Order Slope Rotatable Designs Over All Directions Using Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Type Design Patman Nearness : Distance Criterion and Optimal Regression Designs Optimum Robust First Order Rotatable Designs On Two Classes of Block Designs Having Orthogonal Factorial Structure Construction of a Series of -Resolvable BIB Designs from Mutually Orthogonal Sets of BIB Designs
	Technical Session VII: Chairman: Seminar Room 2 Speakers: Raghunath Arnab Arun K. Adhikari R. M. Sekkappan M. G. M. Khan T. K. Ghara	A. Chaudhuri Analyses of Randomized Response Survey Data Variance Estimation in a Specific Three Stage Survey Sampling Strategy Fixed Population and Super Population Approaches in Finite Population Sampling An Optimal Multivariate Stratified Sampling Design Using Dynamic Programming Optimal Stratified Sampling in the Presence of Auxiliary Variable Using Information Theoretic Approach
	Technical Session VIII: Chairman: Seminar Room 3 Speakers: Saibal Chatterjee M. N. Patel Atanu Biswas GopalDeb Chattopadhyay J. P. N. Bishwal	A. K. Basu Estimation of a Linear Function k Multinormal Mean Vectors by Combining Available Independent Sequential Studies Estimation from Interval Power Series Distribution. An Alternative Test for Bernoulli Success Probability against Two-sided Alternatives Randomized Play-the-winner Rule for Ordered Categoriacal Data Sequential Estimation for Non-linear Semi Martingale Models
December 27, 1997
8:45 hrs-10:15 hrs:	Raj Chandra Bose Memorial Session: Chairman: Seminar Room 1 Speakers: C. S. Cheng Dibyen Majumdar Rahul Mukherjee	D. Raghavarao Projection Properties of Arthogonal Arrays Optimal and Efficient Designs Based on Semibalanced Arrays On the Optimality of Orthogonal Array Plus One Run Plans
10:15 hrs-10:30 hrs:	TEA BREAK
10:30 hrs-11:30 hrs:	Special Lectures: Chairman: Seminar Room 1 Speakers: K. R. Parthasarathy R. N. Bhattachryya	B. V. Rao An Invitation to Quantum Probability A Markovian Algorithm for Random Continued Fractions and A Computation of Their Singular Equilibria
11:30 hrs-13:00 hrs:	Tecnical Session IX: Chairman: Seminar Room 1 Speakers: P. K. Bhattachryya Ram. C. Tiwari Malay Ghosh	P. K. Sen Estimation of a Multivariate Survival Function from Data in which Each Variable is Right-censored by a Common random Mechanism Distribution-free Tests for Two Crossing Cumulative Incidence Functions Design Consistent Model Based Estimators in Survey Sampling:A Bayesian Look
	Tecnical Session IX: Chairman: Seminar Room 2 Speakers: Somesh Dasgupta D. Raghavarao Sati Mazumdar	S.P. Mukherjee Study of the Effect of Jute Dust on the Pulmonary Function of Jute Workers Designing Combination Drug Trials Intent-Treat Analysis for Clinical Trials with Longitudinal Data
13.00 hrs - 14.00 hrs:	LUNCH BREAK
14.00 hrs - 16.00 hrs:	Tecnical Session XI: Chairman: Seminar Room 1 Speakers: H. L. Koul Takashi Yanagawa Gopal K. Basak Kanchan Mukherjee	B. L. S. Prakash Rao Nonparametric Model Checks for Series Graphical Representation of Non-linear Time Series Data On Order Selections for the CAR(p) Processes Asymptotics of Quantiles and Rank Scores in Nonlinear Time Series
	Tecnical Session XII: Chairman: Seminar Room 2 Speakers: Arijit Chaudhuri P. Lahiri D. Sinha Manzoor Ahmad	T. J. Rao Correlation Analysis in Complex Surveys A Unified Measure of Uncertainty of Estimated Best Linear Unbiased Predictor in Small Area Estimation Problem A New Survival Model for Populations with a Surviving Fraction On Some Finite Population Problems under a Sequential Sampling Design with Multiple Repeats
	Tecnical Session XIII: Chairman: Seminar Room 3 Speakers: S. R. Paul B. C. Sutradhar Philip Yu	Rahul Mukherjee The GLS F-Test and Estimation of the Intracluster Correlation Parameters in Regression Analysis with Cluster Samples On Recent Estimation Approaches in Generalized Linear Models for Cluster Correlated Data Graphical Representation of Ranking Data
16.00 hrs - 16.15 hrs:	TEA BREAK
16.15 hrs - 17.45 hrs:	Tecnical Session XIV: Chairman: Seminar Room 1 Speakers: D. Roy A. Sengupta Sahadeb Sarkar Subash Bagui	Bikash K. Sinha A Mathematical Programming Approach for Estimation of Distribution and density Functions On the Construction of Some New Optimal Tests for No Contamination Negative Exponential Disparity Based Family of Goodness of Fit Tests for Multinomial Models Some Useful Properties of the Bayes' Risk
	Tecnical Session XV: Chairman: Seminar Room 2 Speakers: Srabasi Basu Gopal Chaudhuri A. B. Aich M. K. Pande I. D. Patel	S. K. Basu On Homogeneous Elliptic Clusters in Multivariate Data Based on Mahalanabis' Distance On the Reliability Function of a Simple Computer Network in Random Environment Reliability Testing under a Stress-strength Model with Restricted Prior Information Progressively Group Censored Sample Life Test with Periodic Change in Failure Rate
	Tecnical Session XVI: Chairman: Seminar Room 3 Speakers: Debasish Ghosh Snigdhansu Chatterjee M. B. Bhatt N. K. Deka A. K. Sinha	Sati Mazumdar Response Conditional Models for Correlated Binary Data:A Review Second Order Comparison of Different Bootstrap and Jackknife Methods in Regression Asymptotic Distributions for One-trancation Parameter Family Contraception Prevalance and Fertility Preferences : A Path Analysis Estimating the Total Urban Population Using Ranked Set Sampling
17.45 hrs - 18.00 hrs:	TEA BREAK
18.00 hrs - 19.30 hrs:	Seminar Room 1 STATISTICS IN INDUSTRY Introductory Remarks: Guest in Chief: Speakers: Jon Stene Mainak Mazumdar Subir Ghosh	A Special Session arranged by Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability in collaboration with Department of Statistics, Calcutta University and Calcutta Statistical Association S. P. Mukherjee D. R. Cox International Standardization of Statistical Terms : Theoritical and Practical Problems Design of Combined System and Component Tests for Series System Reliability Designing Propulsion reliability of Space Launch Vehicles
December 28, 1997
9:00 hrs-11:00 hrs:	Seminar Room 1 Soumitra Kumar Chakravarti Memorial Lecture: Chairman: Introductory Remarks: Speakers: Amartya Sen	Dhires Bhattacharyya N. K. Mandal(Secretary, Calcutta Statistical Institute) Should Inequality and Poverty Measures be Decomposable?
11.00 hrs - 11.15 hrs:	TEA BREAK
11:15 hrs-12:30 hrs:	Seminar Room 1 Special Lectures: Chairman: Speakers: J. K. Ghosh Alan Gelfand	D. R. Cox Bayesian Density Estimation Problems, Solution and Open Questions Bayesian Variogram Modelling and Spatial Prediction for An Isotropic Spatial Process
12.30 hrs - 13.00 hrs:	PHOTO SESSION
13.00 hrs - 14.00 hrs:	LUNCH BREAK
14:00 hrs-15:00 hrs:	Seminar Room 1 S. N. Roy Memorial Lecture: Chairman: Speakers: D. R. Cox	S. K. Chatterjee Theories of Statistical Inference : An Eclectic Review
15.00 hrs - 16.50 hrs	Technical Session XVII: Chairman: Seminar Room 1 Speakers: Y. Hochberg Brani Vidakovic Bani K. Mallick Sujit K. Sahu	Alan Gelfand On the Directional Decision Problem Wavelets : What They Are and What They Are Not? Bayesian Survival Analysis Using Polya Trees Rate of Convergence of the Gibbs Sampler by Gaussian Approximation
	Technical Session XVIII: Seminar Room 2 Chairman: Speakers: Bhaskar Ghosh A. K. Basu Nitis Mukhopadhyay Arup Bose	Malay Ghosh On Optimum Fixed-Width Confidence Interval for the Binomila Parameter On Fixed Width Confidence Intervals Associated with Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Parameter under Dependent Set-up On a Way to Second Order Properties of Two-stage Fixed Size Confidence Region Problems for the Mean Vector of a Multivariate Normal Distribution A Boundary Crossing Problem with Application to Sequential Estimation
16.50 hrs - 17.00 hrs:	TEA BREAK
17.00 hrs - 18.00 hrs:	SESSION ON STATISTICS EDUCATION Chairman: Speakers: Jack A. Carter S. P. Mukherjee P. K. Sen	A. M. Goon Reforming a Statistics Curriculam for Prospective Elementary School Mathematics Teachers Some Problems of Teaching Statistics at the Post-Graduate Levels Observations
18.00 hrs - 18.30 hrs:	VALEDICTORY SESSION Chairman: Observations by Participants: Vote of Thanks:	S. P. Mukherjee M. Pal