Acharya Prafulla Chandra College (APC College)

Acharya Prafulla Chandra College

Govt. Sponsored | NAAC Accredited A Grade College with CGPA 3.23

Affiliated to West Bengal State University

Acharya Prafulla Chandra College (APC College)

Dr. Arabinda Das

M.Sc., Ph.D. (Statistics)

Contact Details :

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
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Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New Barrackpore, Kolkata-700131 West Bengal, India

Teaching :

Undergraduate course of Statistics (Hons.), Applied Econometrics, Time Series Analysis

Research Interests :

Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Modeling Dependence and Copula Function, Simulation Based Estimation, Bayesian Analysis, Bio-statistics

Ph.D. Thesis Title: “Contribution to Econometric Analysis of Stochastic Frontier Model with Correlated Error Components”

Computer Knowledge :

Statistical packages: EViews, WinBUGS, SHAZAM, R, MINITAB, SPSS; Latex

Projects Undertaken :

Arsenic in Food Chain and Effect on Human Health (2009-2012): Co-investigator Estimating different diseases through modelling developed in persons taking arsenic contaminated water and food in West Bengal (2013- ): Principal Investigator

Awards & Scholarships :

  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2001
  • Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) of CSIR-NET, June 2002.
  • Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) of CSIR-NET, April 2005.

Membership :

  • Life Member, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
  • Member, Institute for Mathematical Statistics.

List of Publications :

  • On Measures of Technical Inefficiency and Production Uncertainty in Stochastic Frontier Production Function with Correlated Error Components (with D. Bandyopadhyay), Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 26 (2006), Issue 2, 165 – 180.
  • Bayesian Analysis of Truncated Bivariate Normal Stochastic Frontier Model (with D. Bandyopadhyay), Proceedings of 43rd Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society (2007).
  • Identifiability of Stochastic Frontier Models (with D. Bandyopadhyay), Journal of Quantitative Economics, Vol. 6 (2008), No. 1 & 2, 57 – 70.
  • Estimation of the Truncated Bivariate Normal Stochastic Frontier Model by EM Algorithm (with D. Bandyopadhyay), Journal of Quantitative Economics, Vol. 7 (2009), No. 2, 80 – 95.
  • EM Estimation of a Non-identifiable Stochastic Frontier Model, International Journal of Statistics & Economics, Vol. 9 (2012), No. A12, 128 – 137.
  • Hypertension in Chronic Arsenic Exposure: A Case Control Study in West Bengal (with D. N. Guha Mazumder et al.), Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, Vol. 47 (2012), 1514–1520.
  • Nutritional Deficiency and Arsenical Manifestations: A Perspective Study in an Arsenic-Endemic Region of West Bengal, India (with Debasree Deb et al.), Public Health Nutrition, Vol. 16 (2013), Issue 09, 1644-1655.
  • Ischemic Heart Disease in Chronic Arsenic Exposure: A Case Control Study in West Bengal (with D. N. Guha Mazumder et al.), Global Advanced Research Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Vol. 2(2) (2013), 047-054.
  • Recent Developments in Stochastic Frontier Model with Correlated Error Components, Indore Management Journal (2013), Vol. 5, 65-80.
  • Dietary arsenic exposure with low level of arsenic in drinking water and biomarker: A study in West Bengal (with D. N. Guha Mazumder et al.), Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, Vol. 49 (2014), 555–564.
  • Chronic lung disease and detection of pulmonary artery dilatation in high resolution computerized tomography of chest in chronic arsenic exposure (with P. Bhattacharyya et al.), Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A, Vol. 49 (2014), 1453–1461.
  • Estimation of Urinary Arsenic Exposure using Copula-based Regression: A Case Study of West Bengal, Environmental Modeling & Assessment, (2015), Vol. 20 (2), 159–167.
  • Copula-based Stochastic Frontier Model with Autocorrelated Inefficiency, Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics (2015), Vol. 7 (2), 111-126.
  • Epidemiology of Diarrhea among under-five Children in a Village in Sunderbans, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India (with K. K. Majumder et al.), Journal of Communicable Diseases (2017), 49(1), 6-13.
  • Low Arsenic Exposure Risk in Endemic Population, Cohort Study for Consecutive Years (with A. Biswas et al.), Exposure & Health (2017)
  • Cancer risk estimation from dietary arsenic, a new approach from longitudinal cohort study (with A. Biswas et al.), Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (2018)

Papers under Review and Progress:

  • A Stochastic Frontier Model with Geometric Outcome, working paper.
  • GMM Estimation of a Closed form Copula-Based Stochastic Frontier Model.
  • Estimation of Inefficiency using a Firm-specific Frontier Model, under review.
  • Copula-based Bivariate Model for Lung Disease and Arsenicosis Status in Chronic Arsenic Exposure, under review.
  • Copula-based Mixed Bivariate Model for Skin Lesion and Arsenic in Hair in Chronic Arsenic Exposure, under review
  • Bounded Inefficiency in Copula-based Stochastic Frontier Model, under review.
  • A Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Model with Autocorrelated Inefficiency (with Debdas Bandyopadhyay), completed paper.

Conference Presentations :

  • National Seminar on Econometric Applications in Management, Department of Management, School of Commerce and Management, Central University of Rajasthan, In Collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), November 20-21, 2013.
  • National Conference on Application of Statistics in Industry and Planning, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, 25th February’12 – 27th February’12.
  • 43rd Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society, I.I.T. Bombay, India, 3rd January’07 - 5th January’07.
  • 25th Annual Conference of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics and Annual Meeting of Indian Bayesian Society, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India, 28th December’05-30th December’05.
  • International Conference on the Future of Statistical theory, Practice and Education, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India, 29th December’04-1st January’05.
  • Workshop on “Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Theory, Applications and Computations”, organized by Prof. T. Krishnan, Systat Asia Pacific Corp. on 27th December, 2005.
  • Workshop on “Introduction to Data Mining”, organized by David Banks, Duke University, USA on 2nd January, 2005.