Dr. SOUMITA MODAK is an Indian Statistician, working on applied statistics, who won the prestigious Bose-Nandi National Award twice for her research work. Her homepage is addressed at https://sites.google.com/view/soumitamodak.
B.Sc. (Honors) Statistics (St. Xavier's College, Kolkata (Autonomous), affiliated under University of Calcutta, 2010)
M.Sc. Statistics (University of Calcutta, 2012)
Ph.D. Statistics (University of Calcutta, 2019)
My doctoral work was on Astrostatistics. Post-phd, I taught Statistics in various reputed instituitions like Basanti Devi College, University of Calcutta, and Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.
My research interest includes Clustering, Multivariate Analysis, and Astrostatistics.
My teaching interest includes Applied Statistics, Clustering, Multivariate Data Analysis, Non-parametric Approach, Astrostatistics, Statistical Inference.
Life Member of the International Astrostatistics Association
Life Member of the Indian Association of Productivity, Quality & Reliability
Life Member of the Calcutta Statistical Association
- Soumita Modak (2025). Confirmation of binary clustering in gamma-ray bursts through an integrated p-value from multiple nonparametric tests of hypotheses, Astronomy and Computing, 51, Article id: 100931, Publisher: Elsevier, ISSN: 2213-1337
- Soumita Modak (2024). A new interpoint distance-based clustering algorithm using kernel density estimation, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 53 (11), 5323-5341, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 0361-0918
- Soumita Modak (2024). Determination of the number of clusters through logistic regression analysis, Journal of Applied Statistics, 51 (12), 2344-2363, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 0266-4763
- Soumita Modak (2024). Evaluation of the number of clusters in a data set using p-values from multiple tests of hypotheses, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 53 (24), 8878-8889, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 0361-0926
- Soumita Modak (2024). A New Clustering Accuracy Measure Based on Relative Distances and its Cross-Validation Using Dirichlet Distribution, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, Volume 18, article number 43, Publisher: Springer, ISSN: 1559-8608
- Soumita Modak (2024). Book Review: Finding Groups in Data: An Introduction to Cluster Analysis, Journal of Applied Statistics, 51, 1618-1620
- P. Banerjee, A. K. Chattopadhyay and Soumita Modak (2023). A New Approach to Astronomical Data Analysis Based on Multiple Variables, Advances in Astronomy, Volume 2023, Article ID: 8682054, 11 pages, Publisher: Hindawi, ISSN: 1687-7969, IF: 1.2
- Soumita Modak (2023). Pointwise norm-based clustering of data in arbitrary dimensional space, Communications in Statistics - Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications, 9 (2), 121–134, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 2373-7484
- Soumita Modak (2023). Validity index for clustered data in non-negative space, Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, 75 (1), 60–71, Publisher: Sage, ISSN: 0008-0683
- Soumita Modak (2023). Book Review: Statistical Methods for Astronomical Data Analysis, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 65, 394–395
- Soumita Modak (2023). A new measure for assessment of clustering based on kernel density estimation, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 52 (17), 5942-5951, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 0361-0926
- Soumita Modak (2022). A new nonparametric interpoint distance-based measure for assessment of clustering, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 92 (5) , 1062-1077, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 0094-9655
- Soumita Modak, T. Chattopadhyay and Asis K. Chattopadhyay (2022), Clustering of eclipsing binary light curves through functional principal component analysis, Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 367, Article id 19, Publisher: Springer, ISSN: 0004-640X
- Soumita Modak (2021). Distinction of groups of gamma-ray bursts in the BATSE catalog through fuzzy clustering, Astronomy and Computing, Volume 34, Article id 100441, Publisher: Elsevier, ISSN: 2213-1337
- Soumita Modak, Tanuka Chattopadhyay and Asis K. Chattopadhyay (2020). Unsupervised classification of eclipsing binary light curves through k-medoids clustering, Journal of Applied Statistics, 47 (2), 376-392, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 0266-4763
- Soumita Modak and Uttam Bandyopadhyay (2019). A new nonparametric test for two sample multivariate location problem with application to astronomy, Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications, 18 (2), 136-146, Publisher: Springer, ISSN:2214-1766
- Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Soumita Modak (2018). Bivariate density estimation using normal-gamma kernel with application to astronomy, Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics, 13 (2), 23-39, Publisher: Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences, ISSN:1930-6792
- Soumita Modak, Asis K. Chattopadhyay and Tanuka Chattopadhyay (2018). Clustering of gamma-ray bursts through kernel principal component analysis, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 47 (4), 1088-1102, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 0361-0918
- Soumita Modak, Tanuka Chattopadhyay and Asis K. Chattopadhyay (2017). Two phase formation of massive elliptical galaxies: study through cross-correlation including spatial effect, Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 362, Article id 206, Publisher: Springer, ISSN: 0004-640X
- K. S. Ganguly, Soumita Modak, Asis K. Chattopadhyay, K. S. Ganguly, T. K. Mukherjee, A. Dutta, and D. Biswas (2016). Forecasting Based On a SARIMA Model of Urban Malaria for Kolkata, American Journal of Epidemiology and Infectious Disease, 4 (2), 22-33, Publisher: Science and Education Publishing, ISSN: 2333-116X
- K. S. Ganguly, Soumita Modak, K. S. Ganguly and Asis K. Chattopadhyay (2016). Study on Temporal Effects of Urban Malaria Incidences, International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research, 5 (2), 120-132, Publisher: Lifescience Global, ISSN: 1929-6029
Full publication list is given at https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Mhut04YAAAAJ&hl=en
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