Dr. T. Krishna Kumar
With expertise in Econometric modelling for business policy and public policy, Krishna Kumar extends the frontiers of business analytics work interfacing business problems on the one hand and recent advances in applied statistics on the other. He has recently published a new Advanced Graduate Text Book: Developing Econometrics, (Hengqing Tong, T. Krishna Kumar, and Yangxin Huang), John Wiley and Sons, 2011.
He took that line of research, a road not often taken by many, the estimation of a poverty index without a poverty line. The first paper was published in Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference in 1996 (with V. Sitaramam and Anil Gore). This was followed by a detailed paper in the Journal of Development Studies, Sussex, the UK in 2009 (with Sushanta Mallick and Jayaram Holla). The latest work along these lines titled, “Poverty Index with Time-varying Income and Consumption Distributions” was published in Physical Reviews-E, March 2017.