Sanghamitra Pal
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Dr. Sanghamitra Pal
Asst. Professor , Department of Statistics,
West Bengal State University, Barasat
North 24 Pgs, West Bengal, India
+91-9830294972 (cell)
[email protected]
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Academic Qualification
Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute in February 2004.
Thesis entitled “Contributions to Emerging Techniques in Survey Sampling” under the
guidance of Prof. Arijit Chaudhuri, Applied Statistics Unit, ISI, Kolkata.
Professional Experience
From March, 2009 to till date
Asst. Professor, Department of Statistics, West Bengal State University, Barasat, North 24
Pgs.
From July, 2006 to March, 2009
Research Officer in River Research Institute, Dept. of Irrigation
Job involved Collection and statistical analysis of water level data for rivers in West
Bengal
Since September 2005 to June, 2006
(On extraordinary leave without pay from Dept. of Irrigation, Govt. of West Bengal)
Visiting Scientist in Applied Statistics Unit of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI, Kolkata,
India).
From January, 2005 to August, 2005
(On extraordinary leave without pay from Dept. of Irrigation, Govt. of West Bengal)
Research Associate on a CSIR project entitled “Investigation of Means of Assessment of
errors in Surveys by Judicious Techniques”, in the Applied Statistics Unit of Indian
Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata under Prof. Arijit Chaudhuri, CSIR Emeritus Scientist.
From March, 2001 to December, 2004
Research Officer in River Research Institute, Dept. of Irrigation
Job involved Collection and statistical analysis of water level data for rivers in West
Bengal
From July, 1999 to February, 2001
Senior Research Fellow in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
From July, 1997 to June, 1999
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Junior Research Fellow in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
From August, 1994 to July, 1996
Lecturer in Vidya Dayini Degree College, Santoshnagar, Hyderabad
(Affiliated to Osmania University):
List of Publications
Journal Papers
Best five Papers:
Pal, S (2012). Rao and Wu’s Re-scaling Bootstrap Modified to achieve Extended Coverages,
Jour. Stat. Plan. Inf., 139, (10), 3552-3558.
Chaudhuri, A. & Pal, S. (2002). “On certain alternative mean square error estimators in complex
survey sampling", Jour. Stat. Plan. Inf., 104(2), 363-375.
Chaudhuri, A. & Pal, S. (2003). “On a version of cluster sampling and its practical use", Jour.
Stat. Plan. Inf., 113(1), 25-34
Pal, S. (2007) “Estimating the proportion of people bearing a sensitive issue with an
option to item count lists and randomized response “, Statistics in Transition (Journal of
Polish Statistical Society), 8 (2), 213-216
Pal, S. (2008). “Unbiasedly estimating the total of a stigmatizing variable from a complex
survey on permitting options for direct or randomized responses”, Statistical Papers (Springer
Berlin / Heidelberg) , 49 (2), 157-164.
Other Papers:
Pal, S & Singh, S. (2013). A new unrelated question randomized response model, Statistics,
edited by Bunke , Statistics, 46(1)
Chaudhuri, A. & Pal, S. (2008). “Estimating sensitive proportions from Warner’s randomized
responses in alternative ways restricting to only distinct units sampled ”, Metrika, 68(2), 147-156
Pal, S. (2007). “Extending Takahasi-Sakasegawa’s Indirect Response Technique to Cover
Sensitive Surveys in Unequal Probability Sampling” , Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin,
59, September-December, 265-276
Pal, S . &.Chakrabarty, S. (2006) “Improvement upon Warner’s model with an optional
randomized response technique", Model Assisted Statistics and Applications,, 299-304.
Chaudhuri, A. & Pal, S. (2004) “Estimating domain-wise distribution of scarce objects by
adaptive sampling and model-based borrowing of strength", Jour. Ind. Soc. Agri. Stat.,
58(1), 136-145.
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Chaudhuri, A. & Pal, S. (2003) “Systematic sampling: `Fixed' versus `Random' sampling
interval ", Pak. Jour. Stat.,., 19(2), 259-271.
Chaudhuri, A. & Pal, S. (2003) “Systematic sampling: `Fixed' versus `Random'
sampling interval ", Pak. Jour. Stat.,., 19(2), 259-271.
Chaudhuri, A. & Pal, S. (2002) “Estimating Proportions from Unequal Probability
Samples ", Using Randomized Responses by Warner’s and Other Devices” Jour. Ind.
Soc. Agri. Stat., 55(2), 174-183.
Awards
1. Best paper award in the field of Sampling Theory for the year 2002-2003 in the Journal of the
Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics.
2. Best poster presentation award for the section of Statistics in 87th Indian Science Congress,
Pune, 2000 for the poster entitled “On Improving Domain-wise Correlation Estimates By
Borrowing Strength: An Exercise By Bootstrap Confidence Intervals”
Conference Papers
 “Empirical Bayes estimates based on Adaptive Cluster sampling” :
presented in VI-MSS Workshop on Environmental Statistic, March 2-4,
2015, ISI- Statistical and Mathematical Sciences Institute,USA,
 “Empirical Bayesian approach with Adaptive Cluster sampling”,
presented in IASRI Conference, Jan 3-5,2015 (Invited)
 “Small area estimation of proportions of Arsenic affected wells in
Bangladesh” The first Asian ISI Satellite Meeting on Small area
Estimation SAE 2013 Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September,
2013 (Joint work with Prof. Partha Lahiri, University of Maryland)
 “Improvements of small area estimators with Kalman Filtering”
,presented in International Conference—Statistics, Science and Society:
New Challenges and Opportunities, 2013, IISA Conference, (Invited)
 Organized and Chaired Sample Survey Session, 89th Indian Science
Congress, Bhubaneswar, 2012, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India
(Invited)
 “Modifications on Resampling technique in case of rare population”,
presented in The first International Conference on Theory and
Applications of statistics, Dhaka, Dec 26-28, 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 “Modifications on Bootstrap in case of Rare and Elusive Population”
Invited speaker at IISA, 2009 Vizag Conference, presented
(Invited)
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 “Sampling with elusive population” : presented a paper in a session of
International Statistical Institute Conference, 2009, South Africa
(Invited)
 “Modifications on bootstrap in survey sampling” presented a paper in IISA
International conference on Cochin, Kerala, India, January 2 to 7, 2007.
 “Resampling methods for adaptive cluster sampling”: Presented in German Open
Conference on Probability and Statistics, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am
Main, March 14 to 17, 2006
 “Rescaling
Bootstrap
Procedures
For
Generalized
Regression
Estimators”presented in New Zealand Statistical Association Conference,
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2005
 “Rao and Wu’s (1988) re-scaling bootstrap procedure extended to cover
additional possibilities” : presented a paper entitled in IMS/ASA’s SRMS Joint
Mini Meeting On Current Trends In Survey Sampling And Official Statistics,
The Ffort Radisson, Raichak, 2004
 “Domain-wise estimation of scarce objects by adaptive sampling and modelbased borrowing of strength”: presented in 89th Indian Science Congress,
Lucknow, 2002
 “On Improving Domain-wise Correlation Estimates By Borrowing Strength: An
Exercise By Bootstrap Confidence Intervals”: presented in 87th Indian
Science Congress, Pune, 2000
Referee: Acting as a Referee in many International Journals (Communications in
statistics (Theory and methods), Metron, Applied statistics, MASA etc.)
Session organized:
 Organized an invited session IPM 55 of International Statistical Institute
Conference, 2009, Durban, South Africa
 Organized and Chaired Sample Survey Session, 89th Indian Science
Congress, Bhubaneswar, 2012, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India
Other Professional Activities:
1. Had taken a course on “ Sample Survey” in Winter School on Statistical Data
Analysis Methods, Ferruary, 2015 organized by IRSU, ISI, Kolkata
2. Attached with professional attachment training programme in Sample Survey
with Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, PUSA, New-Delhi.
during December, 2014-February 2015.
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3. Had taken a course entitled “Sampling with rare and elusive population” in the
Training programme on “Recent Advances in Sample Survey and Analysis of
Survey Data using Statistical Softwares” during October 3-23, 2012 organized
by “The Centre of Advanced Faculty Training (CAFT) in Agricultural Statistics
and Computer Application at the Indian Agricultural Statistics”.
4. Reviewer for Video Lecture Series on Regression Analysis from CET, IIT
Kharagapur
5. Member of UG, PG, Research Studies- Board of West Bengal State University
(WBSU) Barasat.
6. Paper setter and Moderator of UG courses in Statistics Department of WBSU,
University of Calcutta, Kalyani University, Vishwa-Bharati University etc.
7. Paper setter of PG courses in Statistics Department of WBSU, Kalyani
University, Vishwa-Bharati University etc.
8. External/ Internal Examiner of Practical examination of UG/PG courses of
Calcutta University, WBSU.
9. Engaged with the project “Estimation and Prediction of River Gauge and Flood using
Statistical Analysis – Kumari, Kanshabati and Rupnarayan River” while working in
River Research Institute, West Bengal as Research officer, 2002-2004.
Courses taught:
1. Had taken courses in MSc (Part I) and MSc (Part II) level at West Bengal
State University, Barasat on Advanced Sample Survey, Sample Survey
,Probability Theory, Data Analysis, Bayesian Analysis, C Programming
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