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CHAPEL HILL -- Dr. Indra M. Chakravarti of Chapel Hill, a professor of statistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1964, died April 16 at UNC Hospitals following a brief illness. He was 74.

At Carolina he was engaged in research in the theory of experimental design. During his lengthy academic career, he wrote about 100 journal articles, reviews and book chapters and received several distinguished honors.

He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and he received the top Statistician's Prize from the Societies of Statistics of Paris and France. He also was a member of the International Statistical Institute, an associate editor for the publications of the Institute of Statistics at the University of Paris, and a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews, published by the American Mathematical Society.

Chakravarti received a Ph.D. from Calcutta University in 1958. He was a visiting professor at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1959-60 and a research fellow there during 1961-62. He became an assistant professor in 1964 and a full professor in 1968.  He also taught at the Case Institute of Technology (1960-61), and the Indian Statistical Institute (1951-59), and he conducted research at the University of Geneva and the University of Paris.

He is survived by a son, Xavier Chakravarti of Chicago.

The funeral service will be Wednesday (April 24) at 2 p.m. at the Community Church in Chapel Hill. Burial will be in the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery. Arrangements are by Walker Funeral Home in Chapel Hill.

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