Anil K. Bera is an econometrician. He is Professor of Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's Department of Economics. He is most noted for his work with Carlos Jarque

Carlos Jarque

Carlos M. Jarque Uribe is a Mexican economist and politician, currently the Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank to Europe and Principal Advisor to the President of the IDB....

 on the Jarque–Bera test

Jarque–Bera test

In statistics, the Jarque–Bera test is a goodness-of-fit test of whether sample data have the skewness and kurtosis matching a normal distribution. The test is named after Carlos Jarque and Anil K. Bera...

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Education

Bera has been awarded degrees from Calcutta University, the Indian Statistical Institute

Indian Statistical Institute

Indian Statistical Institute is a public research institute and university in Kolkata's northern outskirt of Baranagar, India founded by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in 1931...

 and Australian National University

Australian National University

The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

(Phd Aspects of Econometric Modeling (1983).

Selected publications

Carlos M. and Bera, Anil K. (1987) Test for Normality of Observations and Regression Residuals (with C. M. Jarque), International Statistical Review, 55, pp. 163–172.

Carlos M. and Bera, Anil K. (1980) Efficient Tests for Normality, Homoscedasticity and Serial Independence of Regression Residuals, Economics Letters,1980, pp. 255–259.

External links

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Bera, Anil K homepage (Accessed July 2011)