This book revisits Hans-Thies Lehmann's theory of the postdramatic and participates in the ongoing debate on the theatre paradigm by placing contemporary Indian performance within it. None of the Indian theatre-makers under study built their works directly on the Euro-American model of postdramatic theatre, but many have used its vocabulary and apparatus in innovative, transnational ways. Their principal aim was to invigorate the language of Indian urban theatre, which had turned stale und...

This volume consists of a collection of research articles on classical and emerging Statistical Paradigms — parametric, non-parametric and semi-parametric, frequentist and Bayesian — encompassing both theoretical advances and emerging applications in a variety of scientific disciplines. For advances in theory, the topics include: Bayesian Inference, Directional Data Analysis, Distribution Theory, Econometrics and Multiple Testing Procedures. The areas in emerging applications include: Bioi...

This book contains select chapters on a range of topics in directional statistics, multivariate statistical inference, financial statistics, statistical machine learning and reliability inference. At the 43rd Annual Convention of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS) held in Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh, India, from 6–8 February 2024, attribute was paid to Prof. Ashis SenGupta on the occasion of his 70th birthday. He has pioneered research on directional...

This volume redefines the radical by exploring a range of contemporary theatre and performance produced in response to the politico-cultural climate of 21st-century India.Offering a critique of dominant power structures in India, this book showcases how the rise in censorship and intolerance of dissent has brought forth new forms of political and aesthetic radicalism. Theatre has found many ways to perform the radical as a form of resistance, intersecting with othe...

This book contains select chapters presented at the 17th & 18th International Conference of the Institute of Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Information Technology and Computer Science (IMBIC) on Mathematical Sciences for Advancement of Science and Technology (MSAST 2023 & 2024), held at Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, from 21 to 23 December 2023 & 2024. Contributed by researchers from the USA, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Nigeria, and India, it discusses recent research in the intersectio...

This book of selected works exhibits a significant part of Carlos A. Coelho’s research activity in multivariate statistics, focusing on topics related to likelihood ratio tests. After two introductory chapters, including a biography and an overview of the contributions and related research, the articles are presented in their chronological order of publication, thus also showing the research path followed by the author. The volume shows how likelihood ratio tests useful in multivariate ana...

Islam in Performancebrings together six contemporary plays from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that highlight the political performance of Islam in South Asia, especially since the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.The plays invite comparison with one another, engaging with the issue from perspectives of the three countries concerned: Hindutva politics in India othering the Muslim population for electoral gains, radical Islamization of Pakistan paralyzing political gover...

In commemoration of the bicentennial of the birth of the “lady who gave the rose diagram to us”, this special contributed book pays a statistical tribute to Florence Nightingale. This book presents recent phenomenal developments, both in rigorous theory as well as in emerging methods, for applications in directional statistics, in 25 chapters with contributions from 65 renowned researchers from 25 countries. With the advent of modern techniques in statistical paradigms and statistical mach...

This volume highlights Prof. Hira Koul’s achievements in many areas of Statistics, including Asymptotic theory of statistical inference, Robustness, Weighted empirical processes and their applications, Survival Analysis, Nonlinear time series and Econometrics, among others. Chapters are all original papers that explore the frontiers of these areas and will assist researchers and graduate students working in Statistics, Econometrics and related areas. Prof. Hira Koul was the first Ph.D. stu...