Professor J.K. Ghosh, currently the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, is a world- renowned statistician with significant contributions in Statistical Inference, Sequential Analysis and Asymptotic Methods in statistics. He is a winner of the Bhatnagar Prize and a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (USA). Professor S.K. Mitra, Head of the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit at the Delhi Centre of the Indian Statistical Institute, is a distinguished scientist whose contributions in the fields o...