Tata Subba Rao is emeritus professor of statistics

Statistics

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 in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester

School of Mathematics, University of Manchester

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. He gained his MA at Karnatak

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

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, his PhD from ndian Institute of Technology Guwahati|Gauhati] in 1966] DSc from Manchester in 1988. He is a specialist in time series analysis 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 models, and Subba Rao Gabr window for bivariate spectraare named after him.

Subba Rao retired in 2009 having worked at UMIST

UMIST

The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for research...

and the University of Manchester for 42 years. He published over 70 papers and supervised 15 PhD students. Even after retirement he remains active.

External links

• Home page at Manchester Mathematics Staff Homepage