B. R. Bhat

{{Short description|Indian statistician}}

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| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley

| thesis_title = Bayes Sequential Tests in Markov Chains

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| doctoral_advisor = David Blackwell

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Beliyar Ramdas Bhat was a professor and head of the department of statistics at Karnatak University in India for more than two decades. After retiring from Karnatak University, he became a professor at the University of Botswana in Africa.Author profile from Stochastic Models: Analysis and Applications. He was elected member of International Statistical Institute and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Fellow of Royal Statistical Society.

Bhat obtained a M.A. degree in mathematics from Madras University in 1954, and a M.A. degree in statistics from Karnataka University,{{cite journal |title=News and Notices |journal=The Annals of Mathematical Statistics |date=1959 |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=1279–1286 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2237484 |access-date=3 March 2022 |issn=0003-4851}} prior to working on a Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1961. His advisor was David Blackwell.{{cite web |title=Beliyar Ramdas Bhat |url=https://statistics.berkeley.edu/people/beliyar-ramdas-bhat |work=PhD Alumni|publisher=University of California, Berkeley, Department of Statistics |access-date=3 March 2022}}{{mathgenealogy|34367}} Bhat was elected member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and South African Statistical Association. He was the Secretary, Editor and President of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics. He was also the past President of the Section of Statistics of the Indian Science Congress Association.