Research Interest

  • Statistical Inference(Decision Theory)
  • Estimation Under Restricted Parameter Space
  • Stochastic Comparison

  Academic Background

  Subjects Taught

  • Statistical Inference
  • Numerical Optimization Techniques
  • Calculus-I
  • Probability and Statistics
  • Complex Analysis
  • Introduction to Linear Regression and Experimental Design
  • Introduction to Probability Theory
  • Statistical Decision Theory

  Responsibilities

  • Warden: Castle Tria

  Professional Experience

  • Indian Institute of Information Technology Ranchi, Faculty, Department of Mathematics August, 2017 – May, 2018.
  • Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy Visakhapatnam Assistant Professor, 25th June, 2018-24th May 2019.
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Postdoctoral Fellow under NPDF, SERB. 3rd June 2019-26th Nov, 2019.
Publications
  • Kayal, S., L. K. Patra, Bhakta, R. and Nadarajah, S. (2022). Ordering Results for Order Statistics from Heterogeneous Log-Logistic Distributions, American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01966324.2021.2019148
  • L. K. Patra and S. Kumar and C. Petropoulos (2021) Componentwise estimation of ordered scale parameters of two exponential distributions under a general class of loss function, https://doi.org/10.1080/02331888.2021.1943395, Statistics: A Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics
  • L. K. Patra and S. Kumar and C. Petropoulos (2021) Improved estimators for functions of scale parameters in mixture models, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42952-020-00099-w, Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
  • L. K. Patra, S. Kayal. and S. Kumar (2020) Measuring Uncertainty Under Prior Information, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol: 66(4), Pages: 2570-2580
  • L. K. Patra (2019) On the improved estimation of a function of the scale parameter of an exponential distribution based on doubly censored sample. https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2019.1688261, Journal of Applied Statistics
  • C. Petropoulos, L. K. Patra and S. Kumar (2019) Improved Estimators of the Entropy in Scale Mixture of Exponential Distributions, Accepted for publication in Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics.
  • L. K. Patra , S. Kayal and S. Kumar (2019) Minimax estimation of the common variance and precision of two normal populations with ordered restricted means. DOI-https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-019-01090-2, Statistical Papers.
  • L. K. Patra , S. Kumar and B. M. G. Kibria (2019) Improved estimation of a function of scale parameter of a doubly censored exponential distribution. DOI-https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2019.1568482, Communication in Statistics-Theory and Methods.
  • L. K. Patra and S. Kumar (2019) Estimating the common hazard rate of several exponential distributions. DOI-https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2018.1500599, Communication in Statistics-Theory and Methods VOL. 48, NO. 19, 4861–4873.
  • L. K. Patra , S. Kayal and S. Kumar (2018) Estimating a function of scale parameter of an exponential population with unknown location under general loss function. Statistical Papers, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-018-1052-7
  • L. K. Patra and S. Kumar (2018) Estimating the common hazard rate of two exponential distributions with ordered location parameters. Statistics: A Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Vol-52, No-5, 1040-1059.
  • L. K. Patra, S. Kayal and P. Nanda (2018) Some stochastic comparison results of series and parallel systems with heterogeneous new Pareto-type components. Applications of Mathematics, Vol-63, No-1, 55-77.
  • L. K. Patra and Somesh Kumar (2017) Estimating ordered means of a bivariate normal distribution. American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences. Vol. 36, No. 2, 118–136.
  • L. K. Patra and Somesh Kumar (2017) Classes of Improved Estimators for Parameters of a Pareto Distribution. Mathematical Methods of Statistics. Vol. 26, No. 3, 226–235
  • N. Gupta, L. K. Patra, and S. Kumar (2015) Stochastic comparisons in systems with Frechet distributed components. Operations Research Letters, Vol. 43, 612- 615.
Book Chapter
  1. L. K. Patra, S. Kumar and N. Gupta (2018). Estimation of the location parameter of the general half-normal distribution. In Mathematics and Computing 2018, Eds. Ghosh et al., Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics, Chapter-22, Page 281-293.

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