About Us

Department Overview

The Department of Statistics Christ College, Irinjalakuda has been functioning from the very inception of the College. The complementary course for BSc Mathematics was started in 1963 with affiliation to University of Kerala. Later, the Department started to offer complementary courses for various self financing programmes also in undergraduate level. The Department of Statistics had been functioning in a common office with Department of Mathematics since its establishment. The office of the Department of Statistics bifurcated from the common office in 2014 when the College started PG programme in Statistics. For the MSc Statistics programme the Department offers elective courses on Statistical Quality Control and Time Series Analysis, Audit courses on Machine Learning and hands on practice for Statistical computing using R programming. The Department also offers Certificate course in R language. In addition to providing strong academic foundation, the department trains students to embark on Statistical Careers in a variety of areas, especially in emerging topics such as Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Statistical and Advanced Mathematical programming techniques etc. Prof. T T Thomas (1963 – 1995) and Prof. N K Sudhakaran (1982-2012) were former professors of the Department. Dr. Davis Antony Mundassery (1995-2021) serving the Department as coordinator of MSc Statistics Programme and the College as Joint controller of Examinations.