Headshot of Sat Gupta

Faculty Emeritus, Professor of Statistics

Mathematics and Statistics

Email Address: sngupta@uncg.edu

Phone: 336.256.1109

Fellow of the American Statistical Association

Elected member of the International Statistical Institute

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Petty 111

Education

Ph.D., Statistics (Time Series), May 1987, Colorado State University

Ph.D., Mathematics (Coding Theory), February 1977, University of Delhi, India

M.A., Mathematics, 1972, University of Delhi, India

B.A (Honors), Mathematics, 1970, University of Delhi, India

Research

Sample Surveys, Biostatistics, Statistical Consulting

Courses Taught

  • Sampling
  • Time Series
  • Mathematical Statistics
  • Probability

Brief Biograpy

Dr. Gupta is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.  He earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Delhi (1977) and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Colorado State University (1987). He joined the UNCG faculty in 2004 after being at the University of Southern Maine for 18 years. He has earned numerous awards including the UNCG Senior Research Excellence Award and the UNCG College of Arts and Sciences Senior Teaching Excellence Award. His research interests include sampling designs, time series forecasting, and biostatistics. He has appeared as expert witness in many court cases, and is the founding editor of the Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (http://www.springer.com/statistics/journal/42519)