Dibyojyoti Bhattacharjee Author

Hemanta Saikia is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Statistics, Assam Agricultural University, India. He previously taught statistics at the School of Business at Kaziranga University, Assam, India. He completed his Ph.D. at Assam University, Silchar, on the topic “Application of Bayesian Data Analysis and Neural Network for Evaluating Cricketers’ Performance and Compensation Packages in Twenty20 Cricket”. He is a life member of the Indian Bayesian Society, Indian Association for Social Sciences, and Health and North Eastern Economic Association. He has published over 21 research articles in various respected national and international journals.

Dibyojyoti Bhattacharjee is Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics, and Director of Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Assam University, India. He is an advisor to SPSS South East Asia for North East India and was also a visiting scholar at the Sampling and Official Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. He has worked with institutes like the Central Statistical Organisation, G. C. College, Gauhati University, and Assam University, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Statistical Graphics at Gauhati University, India. His research interests include data mining in sports (specifically cricket analytics) and statistical graphics. Professor Bhattacharjee completed his postdoctoral research at XLRI, Xavier School of Management, and Jamshedpur, India. He has authored 15 books and 70 research papers in respected national/international journals.

Diganta Mukherjee is Associate Professor at the Sampling and Official Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He also serves as a technical advisor to Multi Commodity Exchange, the Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, National Sample Survey Office, National Accounts Division, United Nations Development Programme, and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. He was previously associated with Jawaharlal Nehru University, Essex University, and ICFAI Business School, India. He completed his Ph.D. at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He has published three books and over 80 research articles in various respected international journals. He is a life member of the Indian Econometric Society and Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research interests are welfare and development economics, particularly in multidimensional poverty.