Manisha Pal is a retired professor of Statistics from the University of Calcutta, India and is currently a senior professor in the Department of Statistics, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata, India. She has been involved in fruitful research since 1982 and has more than 125 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, having collaborated with many researchers in India and abroad. Her co-authored book, “Optimal Mixture Experiments”, was published in Springer’s prestigious ‘Lecture Notes in Statistics’ book series. Her areas of research interest are inventory control, reliability inference, skewed distributions, mixture experiments and data analysis. Bikas K Sinha is a retired professor of Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He has contributed immensely to both statistical theory and applications. He has published a number of research monographs and textbooks with publishers of international repute, including Springer. With more than 110 research collaborators worldwide and more than 160 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, and three research monographs (co-authored) published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Statistics Series (1989, 2002, 2014), his scholastic contributions have earned him international academic recognition in Statistics.
