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Scientific Reports from the Department of Statistics, Madras Christian College.
  1. STAT - 01/70, Grammars for kernel sentences in Tamil,  Gift Siromoney, December 1970, paper accepted for publication in "Foundations of Language".
  2. STAT - 02/71, Birds of Tambaram area and water-birds of Vedantaangal,  Gift Siromoney, February 1971, paper presented at a Seminar at the Department of Zoology.
  3. STAT - 03/71, First mid-term elections to the parliament (1971) - An Analysis,  K.R.Rajagopalan, May 1971.
  4. STAT - 04/71, Student opinion at the Madras Christian College: A Sample Survey, B.Sugavanam, July 1970, Report of a survey conducted in August 1970 by the members of the Statistics Association.
  5. STAT - 05/71, Equal Matrix Languages and Kleene closure,  Gift Siromoney and  Rani Siromoney, May 1971, paper presented at the Seminar on Formal Mathematical Theories in Computation, March 1971, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
  6. STAT - 09/71, Savings Behavior of Producer-Households, A study of motivations, C.T. Kurien and Gift Siromoney, December 1971, conducted with financial support from the University Grants Commission under the Research Participation Program for Undergraduate Students.
  7. STAT - 10/71, An encounter with the refugees, December 1971, P.E. Chandran , Report on a survey of Bangladesh Refugees at the Chakarbhatha Camp (Madhya Pradesh) conducted during the last week of October, 1971.
  8. STAT - 11/72, Assembly Elections of 1972 - An analysis of the results, K.R. Rajagopalan, G.S. Rajan and M. Bagavandas, May 1972.
  9. STAT - 12/72, Abstract families of matrices and picture languages, Gift Siromoney,  Rani Siromoney and Kamala Krithivasan, May 1972., a mathematical model for picture processing by computers.
  10. STAT - 13/72, Women students at study and leisure, S.Sundar and P.E.Chandran, June 1972.
  11. STAT - 14/72, Picture languages with array rewriting rules  Gift Siromoney, Rani Siromoney and Kamala Krithivasan, September 1972, a mathematical model for picture processing by computers.
  12. STAT - 16/73, Political uncertainty in Tamil Nadu,  Gift Siromoney and M.Abdul Latheef, January 1973, Report of a public opinion survey conducted in December 1972.
  13. STAT - 18/73, The gypsies of Madras City, M.Bagavandas April 1973, Report of a census of the people of the Narikorava tribe conducted on Gandhi Jayanthi Day 1972.
  14. STAT - 19/73, The college student -- An opinion profile, K.R.Rajagopalan, M.Bagavandas and Gift Siromoney, October 1973, conducted with financial support from the University Grants Commission under the College Science Improvement Program.
  15. STAT - 21/75, Hexagonal arrays and rectangular blocks, Gift Siromoney and Rani Siromoney, February 1975, The support of the Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council is gratefully acknowledged.
  16. STAT - 22/75, Computer techniques of image enhancement in the study of a Pallava Grantha inscription, Gift Siromoney, September 1975, a paper accepted for publication in Studies in Indian Epigraphy, the Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India.
  17. STAT - 23/76, Preventable blindness among children of Tamil Nadu, Gift Siromoney, June 1976, Report of a state-wide survey of children belonging to the three to seven age-group, conducted in January 1976.
  18. STAT - 24/76,Tamil Nadu: political leaders and party following, K.R. Rajagopalan, S. Govindaraju and M.Chandrasekaran, August 1976, report of a state-wide pubic opinion survey conducted in January 1976.
  19. STAT - 25/76, Tamil Nadu: deities and devotees, A statistical study,  Gift Siromoney and K.R.Rajagopalan, August 1976.
  20. STAT - 26/76, Computer methods of dating medieval Tamil inscriptions Gift Siromoney, M.Chandrasekaran and R.Chandrasekaran, December 1976, a paper presented at the Third Epigraphical Congress of India, the support of the University Grants Commission is gratefully acknowledged.
  21. STAT - 27/77, Studies in Vaagrivala, J.P. Vijayathilakan, A collection of papers on the Narikorava People of Tamil Nadu, February 1977, The support of the University Grants Commission is gratefully acknowledged.
  22. STAT - 28/77, Computer methods of writer identification: an application to Tamil handwriting,  Gift Siromoney, M.Chandrasekaran and R.Chandrasekaran, February 1977, a paper presented at the All India Interdisciplinary Symposium on Recent Trends of Research Development in Digital Techniques and Pattern Recognition at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. The Support of the University Grants Commission is gratefully acknowledged.
  23. STAT - 29/77, Women Students of the Madras Christian College, K.R.Rajagopalan, M. Gururajan, April 1977, Report of a survey conducted in 1974.
  24. STAT - 30/77, The invention of the Brahmi script, Gift Siromoney and Michael Lockwood, April 1977.
  25. STAT - 31/77, Stochastic Table Arrays, Gift Siromoney and Rani Siromoney, June 1977, The support of the University Grants Commission is gratefully acknowledged.
  26. STAT - 32/77, Computer recognition of printed Tamil characters, Gift Siromoney, R.Chandrasekaran, and M.Chandrasekaran, October 1977, a paper  presented at the annual conference of the Computer Society of India  held in February 1978. The support of the University Grants Commission is gratefully acknowledged.
  27. STAT - 33/77, Computer recognition and transliteration of mridangam mnemonics,  Gift Siromoney, M.Chandrasekaran, and R.Chandrasekaran, December 1977, a paper presented at the fifty-first annual conference of the Music Academy, Madras.
  28. STAT - 34/78, On the occurrence of the pulli in the Tamil-Brahmi inscription of Anaimalai , Emmanuel Jebarajan and Gift Siromoney, January 1978, a paper presented at the Fourth Annual Congress of the Epigraphical Society of India.
  29. STAT - 35/78, Butterflies of Tambaram -- A check list,  Gift Siromoney, March 1978, paper presented at a Seminar at the Department of Zoology.
  30. STAT - 37/78, A new Brahmi inscription from Vikramangalam-Madurai, Gift Siromoney and Emmanuel Jebarajan, July 1978.
  31. STAT - 38/78, Magic Squares (A short Monograph),K.R.Rajagopalan, August 1978.
  32. STAT - 39/79, An application of component analysis to the study of South Indian sculptures,  Gift Siromoney, M.Bagavandas, and S.Govinda Raju, January 1979, A statistical study of Pallava sculptures of eigth century A.D.
  33. STAT - 40/80, Operations in character matrices, R.Chandrasekaran, M. Chandrasekaran and Gift Siromoney, January 1980, a paper  presented at the Annual Convention of the Computer Society of India held at Bombay in February 1980.
  34. STAT - 41/80, Machine recognition of hand-printed Tamil musical notation, M.Chandrasekaran, R.Chandrasekaran and Gift Siromoney, January 1980, a paper  presented at the Annual Convention of the Computer Society of India held at Bombay in February 1980.
  35. STAT - 42/80, Computer analysis of early Chola and Pandya sculptures:an iconometric study,  Gift Siromoney, S.Govinda Raju and M.Bagavandas, January 1980, a paper presented at the Fifth International Tamil Conference held at Madurai in June 1980.
  36. STAT - 43/80, Computer methods of dating Tamil inscriptions, Gift Siromoney, M.Chandrasekaran and R.Chandrasekaran, January 1980, a paper presented at the Fifth International Tamil Conference held at Madurai in June 1980. The support of the Department of Science and technology, Government of India is gratefully acknowledged.
  37. STAT - 44/80, A Tamil-Brahmi Inscription from Muthupatti - Madurai, Gift Siromoney and Emmanuel Jebarajan, March 1980, a paper presented at the Sixth Annual Congress of the Epigraphical Society of India at Ahmedabad.
  38. STAT - 45/80, Classification of frequently occurring inscriptions of Indus civilization in relation to metropolitan centers,  Gift Siromoney, December 1980, a paper presented at the Seventh Annual Congress of the Epigraphical Society of India.
  39. STAT - 46/81, On a two-valued process generated by the interaction of two independent renewal processes with ramification, M.Gururajan, July 1981.
  40. STAT - 50/81, Extended Table Matrix Grammars, Rani Siromoney, Gift Siromoney and K.G. Subramanian, December 1981, a paper presented at the First Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, Bangalore.
  41. STAT - 52/84, Statistical analysis of Harappan signs and sites,  Gift Siromoney and Abdul Huq, March 1984, a paper presented at the Annual Congress of The Epigraphical Society of India held at Aurangabad.
  42. STAT - 53/84, A two unit standby redundant system with phase-type distribution,  M.Gururajan, March 1984
  43. STAT - 54/84, Inscribed objects and Harappan signs: A computer analysis, Abdul Huq and Gift Siromoney, July 1984. Supported by a grant from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
  44. STAT - 55/85, Harappan signs and field symbols: A statistical study,  Abdul Huq and Gift Siromoney, January 1985. A paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Congress of the Epigraphical Society of India held at Dharwad January 7-9, 1985.
  45. STAT - 56/85, Computer analysis of a sample of stone age implements from Madras region, Gift Siromoney, S.Govindaraju and M.Bagavandas, April 1985, a paper presented at a seminar on prehistory held at Poondi on March 30, 1985.
  46. STAT - 57/85, A study of Srilankan refugees in Tamil Nadu, J.P. Vijayathilakan, September 1985.
  47. STAT - 58/85, General election in Tamil Nadu - 1984 -- A factual analysis of the results,  K.R.Rajagopalan and K.Shankar Bhat, September 1985.
  48. STAT - 61/86, Co-occurrence of signs in Harappan Texts, Abdul Huq and Gift Siromoney, February 1986, a paper presented at the Twelfth Annual Congress of The Epigraphical Society of India.
  49. STAT - 62/86, Perception of structure and complexity in south Indian kolam patterns, Gift Siromoney, March 1986.
  50. STAT - 63/87, A new Chola inscription from Pammal near Madras, Gift Siromoney, May 1987, a paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual Congress of the Epigraphical Society of India held at Patna in April 1987.
  51. STAT - 67/88, A somatometric study of Malayali Tribes of Kolli Hills in Tamil Nadu, August 1988, a paper presented at the Seminar on The Hill Tribes of Tamil Nadu held at Namakkal in August 1988.
  52. Life of Jesus, According to Saint Mark in Vaagriboli, the language of the Narikorava people, June 1975.
  53. Tirukkural in Vaagriboli, the language of the Narikorava people, July 1979.
  54. Life of Jesus according to Saint Luke in Vaagriboli, the language of the Narikorava people, December 1979.
  55. List of Publications of Members of the faculty of Madras Christian College, May 1985.

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