Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Statistics (Hons.) (1978), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
• Master of Statistics (1979), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.
• Master of Arts (Math) (1984), University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• Ph. D. (Statistics) (1986), University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Research Interests

• Record Statistics
• Reliability Theory
• Finite Mixture Models
• Paired Comparison Methods

Publications

• Basak, P. On Conditional Median Prediction. (2007). The Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, 2, 2nd Edition, Edited by N. Balakrishnan, C. B. Read, S. Kotz, and B. Vidakovic. New York NY: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

• Basak, I, Basak, P. and Balakrishnan, N. (2006). On Some Predictors of Times to Failure of Censored Items in Progressively Censored Samples. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 50, 1313-1337.

• Basak, P. and Balakrishnan, N. (2003). Maximum Likelihood Prediction of Future Record Statistic. Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Reliability, Vol. 7 in Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics, Edited by Lindquist, B. H. and Doksum, K. A., World Scientific Publishing, Singapore,159-175.

• Basak, P., and Basak, I. (2002). Unimodality of the Distribution of Record Statistics. Statistics & Probability Letters, 56, 395-398.

• Basak, P. (2000). An Application of Record Range and Some Characterization Results. Advances on Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Probability and Statistics, edited by N. Balakrishnan, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 83-95.

• Lindsay, B. G., and Basak, P. (2000). Moments Determine the Tail of a Distribution (But Not Much Else). The American Statistician, 54(4), 248-251.

• Lindsay, B. G., Pilla, R. S., and Basak, P. (2000). Moment-Based Approximations of Distributions Using Mixtures: Theory and Applications. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 52(2), 215-230.

• Basak, I., and P. Basak (1998). Quantile Specification Method of Comparison Values in Analytic Hierarchy Process. Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, 48(189-190), 45-60.

• Basak, P., and Basak, I. (1997). On the Reliability of Systems with Dependent Exponential and Lomax Variables. Journal of Applied Statistical Science, 5(2-3), 181-195.

• Basak, P. (1996). Lower Record Values and Characterizations of Exponential Distribution. Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, 46(181-182), 1-7.

• Lindsay, B. G., and Basak, P. (1993). P. (1996). Multivariate Normal Mixtures: A Fast Consistent Method of Moments. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 88, 468-476.

• Basak, P. (1993). Some Combinatorial Aspects of Paired Comparisons. American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 13(1-2), 1-30.

• Basak, I., Balch, William R., and Basak, P. (1992). Skewness: Asymptotic Critical Values for a Test Related to Pearson's Measure. Journal of Applied Statistics, 19(4), 479-487.

• Lindsay, B. G., and Basak, P. (1991). On Using Bivariate Moments Equations in Mixed Normal Problems. Estimating Functions, edited by Godambe, P. V., Oxford Press, 305-317.

• Basak, P., and Bagchi, P. (1990). Application of Laplace Approximation to Record Values. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 19(5), 1875-1888.

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