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Arnab Chakraborty did his BStat (Hons.) and MStat degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute (Calcutta). He is now a PhD student in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University, California. His research interest lies in areas of statistics and computational algebra. Apart from that he is interested in playing the piano and wishes he could really play well.
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Chakraborty, A. Markov chain Monte Carlo. Reson 7, 25–34 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02896305
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