Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh

Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh (* February 10, 1936 in Calcutta, India; † August 3, 2008 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA) was an Indian-American statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis.

With his dissertation "Sequential Analysis of Components of Variance in Hierarchical Classifications", supervised by Norman Lloyd Johnson, he earned his PhD in 1959.

Jointly with Harold Adolph Freeman he completed a monograph "An Introduction to Sequential Experimentation", published 1961 as a US Army Technical Report.

In 1982, he founded, jointly with Pranab Kumar Sen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), the journal "Sequential Analysis" and served as Co-Editor until 1995.

A complete list of Ghosh's publications, provided by Bennett Eisenberg and Nitis Mukhopadhyay, is contained in Sequential Analysis, Vol.