Areas of Interest/Specialization: 

Statistical Modelling, Nonlinear time-series analysis, Multivariate analysis, Machine learning techniques, Optimization techniques.

Experience:

Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi. (April 2011-April 2020)

Assistant Professor (Statistics), Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan. On International deputation (Selected by Ministry of External Affairs) under Bhutan visiting faculty programme of Colombo Plan. (July 2018-August 2021)

Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi. (April 2020-August 2023).

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP

Presented a paper entitled “Fitting Smooth Transition Autoregressive nonlinear time-series model using Particle Swarm Optimization technique”, which was awarded the G. R. Seth Memorial Young Scientist Award by ISAS in the 67th Annual conference held in BHU, Varanasi during 18th -20th December, 2013.

Research Projects

1. A study of Stochastic Volatility Models through Particle Filtering.
2. A study on STAR and SV families of nonlinear time-series models for describing cyclicity and volatility in Agriculture.
3. A study on Modelling and forecasting of time-series with long memory processes.
4. Modeling and construction of transcriptional regulatory networks using time-series gene expression data.
5. Study on volatility spillover of agricultural commodity prices.
6. A Study on Price Efficiency in Agricultural Commodity Market.
7. Crop yield forecasting under Forecasting Agricultural Output using Space Agro meteorology and Land based observations (FASAL) Scheme.
8. Forecasting of spatio-temporal time series data using Space Time Autoregressive Moving Average (STARMA) model.
9. Future perspective of Bt technology in Indian agriculture.
10. Development of count time-series models for predicting pest dynamics using weather variables.
11. Parameter estimation of time series models using Bayesian technique.
12. Statistical Analysis of Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Bhutan
13. Modelling of proportional data for forewarning pest attacks in crops

Professional Societies /Journal:

1. Editorial member: International Journal of Social Sciences & Economic Environment.
2. Life Member: Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics
3. Editorial member: Academic Research in Science, Engineering, Art and Management (ARSEAM) Foundation

Publications

1. Gurung, Bishal, Dutta, S., Singh, K.N., Lama, A., Vennila, S. and Gurung, B. (2022). Development of weather-based forewarning model for tomato leaf curl infestation. Journal of Agrometeorology, 24(4), 424-426.
2. Gurung, Bishal, Dutta, S., Singh, K.N., Lama, A., Vennila, S. and Gurung, B. (2023). The development of a statistical model for forewarning Helicoverpa armigera infestation using beta regression. Journal of Crop and Weed, 19(1), 210-215.
3. Lama, A., Singh, K.N., Singh, H., Shekhawat, R., Mishra, P. and Gurung, Bishal (2022). Forecasting monthly rainfall of Sub-Himalayan region of India using parametric and non-parametric modelling approaches. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. 8, 837–845.
4. Md. Yeasin, Singh, K.N., Lama, A. and Gurung, Bishal (2021). Improved weather indices based Bayesian regression model for forecasting crop yield. Mausam, 72 (4), 879-886
5. Gurung, Bishal, Sarkar, K.P., Singh, K.N. and Lama, A. (2021).  Modelling annual maximum temperature of India: A distributional approach. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 145, 979–988.
6. D Sarkar, K.P., Singh, K.N., Lama, A. and Gurung, Bishal (2020) Incorporation of exogenous variable in long memory model: An ARFIMAX-GARCH framework. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. 74(2), 99-106.
7. Sarkar, K.P., Singh, K.N., Paul, A.K., Ramasubramanian, V., Kumar, M., Lama, A. and Gurung, Bishal (2020) Forecasting long range dependent time series with exogenous variable using ARFIMAX model. Indian Journal of Agricultural sciences. 90(7), 1302-1305.
8. Lama, A., Singh, K.N., Shekhawat, R.S., Sarkar, K.P. and Gurung, Bishal (2020) Forecasting price index of Finger Millet (Ragi) in India under policy interventions. Indian Journal of Agricultural sciences, 90(5), 885-889.
9. Lama, A., Singh, K.N., Shekhawat, R.S., Gurung, Bishal and Roy, H.S. (2018) Observation of Time Series Model. Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Patrika, 33 (1&2), 58-61.
10. Shekhawat, R.S., Singh, K.N., Lama, A. and Gurung, Bishal (2018) Price Discovery and Co-Integration Analysis between Spot and Futures Prices of Refined Soy Oil in India. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 7(11), 40-46.
11. Lama, A., Singh, K.N., Sinha, K., Shekhawat, R.S., Md. Yeasin and Gurung, Bishal (2019) Modelling transmission of potato price volatility in West Bengal markets: MGARCH approach. RASHI, 3(1), 33-38.
12. Shekhawat, R.S., Singh, K.N., Bhattarai, M., Gurung, Bishal, Lama, A., Sarkar, K.P. and Doni, R. (2019) Growth and diffusion dynamics of tractor in Indian state of Punjab. Indian Journal of Agricultural sciences, 89 (6), 1054-1056.
13. Sarkar, K.P., Singh, K.N., Lama, A., Gurung, Bishal, Kumar,R. and Vinaykumar, L.N. (2019) Application of Bayesian Inference in Time Series Analysis. Bhartiya Krishi Anusandhan Patrika, 34 (13-4), 58-61.
14. Lama, A., Singh, K.N., Shekhawat, R.S. and Gurung, B. (2020) Price Dynamics of Major High Valued Seed Spices in India: An Econometric Insight. Journal of Crop and Weed. 16 (1), 110-119.
15. Dolma, N., Sureja, A.K., Munshi, A.D., Verma, M., Arya, L., Krishnan, S.G., Gurung, Bishal (2022). Morphological and molecular characterization of Satputia (Luffa hermaphrodita Singh & Bhandari) revealed substantial diversity for use inî??breeding programme. Genet Resour Crop Evol (2022) 69:2485–2500.
16. Gurung, Bishal, Singh, K.N., Shekhawat, Ravinder, and Yeasin, Md (2017). An insight into technology diffusion of tractor through Weibull growth model. Journal of Applied Statistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2017.1289504
17. Gurung, Bishal, Singh, K.N., Paul, Ranjit Kumar, Panwar, Sanjeev, Gurung, Biwash, and Lepcha, Lawrence (2017). An alternative method for forecasting price volatility by combining models. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation.   46(6),   4627-4636. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2015.1124115
18. Ibandalin, M., Kumar, S., Gurung, Bishal, Singh, K.H., and Singh, D.(2017).A Simple Spectrophotometric Method for Estimating Total Glucosinolates in Mustard de- oiled cake. International Journal of Food Properties. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10942912.2017.1286353
19. Gurung, Bishal, Paul, Ranjit Kumar, Singh, K.N., Panwar, Sanjeev, Lama, Achal and Lepcha, Lawrence (2015). An alternative approach to capture cyclical and volatile phenomena in time-series data. Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. 11(3), 221-230.
20. Paul, Ranjit Kumar, Samanta, Sandipan, and Gurung, Bishal (2015). Monte Carlo simulation for comparison of different estimators of long memory parameter: An application of ARFIMA model for forecasting commodity price. Model Assisted Statistics and Applications. 10 (2), 117-128.
21. Devi, C.P., Munshi, A.D., Behera, T.K., Choudhary, H., Vinod, Gurung, Bishal, Saha, P. (2015). Cross compatibility study in interspecific hybridization of Solanum melongena and its wild relatives. Scientia Horticulturae. 193, 353–358.
22. Ghosh, Himadri, Gurung, Bishal, and Prajneshu (2014). Kalman filter based modelling and forecasting of stochastic volatility with threshold. Journal of Applied Statistics. 42(3), 492-507.
23. Gurung, Bishal, Panwar, Sanjeev, Singh, K.N., Banerjee, Rahul, Gurung, Sisir Raj, and Rathod, Abhisek (2017). Wheat Yield Forecast Using Detrended Yield over a Sub-Humid Climatic Environment In Five Districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 87(1), 87-91.
24. Bhutia, T.L., Munshi, A.D., Sureja, A.K., Gurung, Bishal, Singh, S. Herojit (2018). Estimates of genetic component of variances and genetic ratios for earliness and yield attributing traits in cucumber. International Journal of Genetics, 10 (3), 373-375.
25. Kanchan, S., Gurung, Bishal, Paul, R.K., Kumar, A., Panwar, S., Alam, W., Ray, M. and Rathod, S. (2017). Volatility Spill over using multivariate GARCH model: An application in futures and spot market price of black pepper. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. 71(1), 21-28.
26. Rathod, S., Singh, K, N. Paul, R.K., Meher, R.K., Mishra, G.C., Gurung, Bishal, Ray, M. and Sinha, K. (2017). An Improved ARFIMA Model using Maximum Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform (MODWT) and ANN for Forecasting Agricultural Commodity Price. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. 71(2): 103–111.
27. Panwar, S, Singh, KN, Kumar, A, Gurung, Bishal, Sarkar, S., Sivaramane and Rathore, A (2017). Pre harvest forecasting of crop yield using non-linear regression modelling: A concept. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 87(5), 685-689.
28. Bansal, Ruchi, Pradheep, K., Kumari, Jyoti, Kumar, S., Yadav, MC, Gurung, Bishal, Kumari, NKP, Rana, JC. (2016). Physiological and biochemical evaluation for drought tolerance in wheat germplasm collected from arid western plains of India. Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 53, 212-217.
29. Gurung, Bishal, Singh, K.N., Prajneshu, and Avnish Grover. (2016). Analysis of cyclical fish landings through ESTAR nonlinear time-series approach. Indian Journal of Fisheries. 63(2), 110-113.
30. Panwar, S, Kumar, A, Singh, KN, Gurung, Bishal and Rathore, A (2016). Use of Weather Indices approach in wheat yield crop forecast. Int. J. Tropical Agril., ISSN: 0254-8755, 1-4.
31. Sanjeev Panwar, Anil Kumar, Priya Sharma and Gurung, Bishal (2017). Analysis of Volatile Export Data of Fruits and Vegetables Seeds: An Application of Stochastic Volatility Model using the Particle Filter. Ind. Jour. Agril. Mark. 31(1), 32-41.
32. Hemlata Bharti , P. Manivel, Gurung, Bishal, and Jitendra Kumar. (2017) Multivariate analysis of yield associated traits in Safed musli (Chlorophytum borivilianum) genotypes under semi-arid conditions. Indian Journal of Horticulture, 74(2), 264- 270.
33. Angami, T., Assumi, S.R., Baruah, S., Sen, A., Bam, B., Khatoon, A., Gurung, Bishal and H. Kalita. (2017) A Study on the Quality Changes of Taktir Fruits (Garcinia lancifolia. Roxb) in Different Packages during Storage. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 6(8), 928-936.
34. Bhardwaj S.P, Gurung, Bishal, Kanchan Sinha and K.N. Singh (2016) Study on Market Efficiency and Price Risk Management in Future Trading. Ind. Jr. of Agril. Marketing. 30 (3), 48-58.
35. Panwar, S, Kumar, A, Sarkar, SK, Paul, RK, Gurung, Bishal and Rathore, A (2016) Forecasting of common carp fish production from ponds using non-linear growth models: A modelling approach. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 70 (2), 139–144.
36. Paul, AK, Kundu, MG, Paul, RK and Gurung, Bishal (2016). Usefulness of Growth Curve Parameters in early selection of pigs. Journal of the Society for Application of Statistics in Agriculture and Allied Sciences (SASAA), 1(2), 27- 34.
37. Panwar, S, Singh, KN, Kumar, A, Paul, RK, Sarkar, SK, Gurung, Bishal and Rathore, A (2017). Performance evaluation of yield crop forecasting models using weather index regression analysis. The Ind. Jour. Agril. Sci., 87 (2), 270-272.
38. Paul, RK, Gurung, Bishal, Paul, AK and Samanta, S (2016). Long memory in conditional variance. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 70(3), 243-254.
39. Amit Saha, SP Bhardwaj, KN Singh, Kanchan Sinha, Avnish Grover and Gurung, Bishal (2016). Hedge ratio based on Ordinary Least Square (OLS) vs. State space methodologies. Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. 71(1), 15-20.
40. Namita Das Saha, Anita Chaudhary, Shiv Dhar Singh, Suresh Walia, Tapas Kumar Das, Dinesh Singh, Bhawana Pant, Arpan Bhowmik, Bishal Gurung and Himanshu Pathak. (2016) Climate change variables induced soft rot causing plant pathogen to produce new quorum sensing (cell to cell communication) signal for enhanced pathogenesis. Indian Phytopatholog, 69(4s),260-265
41. Achal Lama, Girish K Jha, Gurung, Bishal, Ranjit Kumar Paul and Kanchan Sinha (2016). VAR-MGARCH models for volatility modelling pulses prices: An application. Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. 70(2),145-151.
42. Achal Lama, Girish K Jha, Gurung, Bishal, Ranjit Kumar Paul, Anshu Bharadwaj and Rajender Parsad. (2016) A comparative study on time-delay neural network and GARCH models for forecasting agricultural commodity price volatility. Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics 70(1), 7-18.
43. Paul, Ranjit Kumar, Gurung, Bishal, Samanta, Sandipan, and Amrit Kumar Paul (2015). Modeling Long Memory in Volatility for Spot Price of Lentil with Multi- step Ahead Out-of-sample Forecast Using AR-FIGARCH Model. Economic Affairs, 60(3), 457-466.
44. Gurung, Bishal, Singh, K.N., Paul, Ranjit Kumar, Arya, Prawin, Panwar, Sanjeev, Paul, Amrit, Gurung, Sisir Raj and Lama, Achal (2015). Fitting Stochastic Volatility model through Genetic Algorithm. International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences. 11, Supplement 1,257-264.
45. Joshi, Deepika, Singh, H.P., and Gurung, Bishal (2015). Stability Analysis of Indian Spices Export – A Markov Chain Approach. Economic Affairs. 60 (2), 257-262.
46. Ranjit Kumar Paul, P. S. Birthal, Amrit Kumar Paul and Gurung, Bishal (2015). Temperature trend in different agro-climatic zones in India. MAUSAM. 66(4), 841-846.
47. Lama, Achal, Jha, GK, Paul, Ranjit Kumar, Gurung, Bishal (2015). Modelling and forecasting of price volatility: An application of GARCH and EGARCH models. Agricultural Economics Research Review. 28 (1), 73-82.
48. Gurung, Bishal (2015). An Exponential Autoregressive (EXPAR) model for the forecasting of All India annual rainfall. MAUSAM. 66(4), 847-849.
49. Paul, Ranjit Kumar, Gurung, Bishal, and Samanta, Sandipan (2015). Analyzing the Effect of Dual Long Memory Process in Forecasting Agricultural Prices in Different Markets of India. International Journal of Empirical Finance. 4(4), 235- 249.
50. Ghosh, Himadri, Gurung, Bishal, and Prajneshu (2014). Fitting EXPAR models through the extended Kalman filter. Sankhya B. 77(B 1), 27-44.
51. Gurung, Bishal, Paul, Ranjit Kumar and Ghosh, Himadri. (2014) Fitting Smooth Transition Autoregressive nonlinear time-series model using Particle Swarm Optimization technique. Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. 68(3), 327-332.
52. Lawrence Lepcha, Gurung, Bishal, Paul, Ranjit Kumar, and Kanchan Sinha (2014). Stochastic model for sticklac forecasting in India. Economic Affairs. 59(3),479- 483.
53. Gurung, Bishal, Paul, Ranjit Kumar, and Lawrence Lepcha (2014). Volatility and cointegration in export of livestock and marine products of India. Indian Journal of Animal Sciences. 84(11),1244-1247.
54. Gurung, Bishal, Prajneshu, and Ghosh, Himadri (2014). Stochastic Volatility Model Fitting using Particle Filter: An Application. Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. 68(3), 343-350.
55. Paul, Ranjit Kumar, Gurung, Bishal, and Paul, Amrit Kumar (2014). Modelling and forecasting of retail price of Arhar Dal in Karnal, Haryana. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 85(1), 69-52.
56. Assumi, R., Pal, R.K., Gurung, Bishal, and Kaur, C. (2014). Physico-chemical characteristics and sensory quality of pineapple vermouth. Indian Journal of Horticulture. 71(3), 402-407.
57. Gurung, Bishal (2014). Fitting nonlinear time-series model using Swarm Optimization technique. Advance in Electronic and Electric Engineering, 4(6), 537-540.
58. Gurung, Bishal, Ghosh, Himadri and Prajneshu (2013). Forecasting volatile time-series data through Stochastic volatility model, Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 83(12), 1368-71.
59. Gurung, Bishal (2013). Modelling and forecasting of volatile time-series data: An application of Genetic Algorithm. International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences. 9, 87-94.
60. Gurung, Bishal (2013). An application of Exponential Autoregressive (EXPAR) nonlinear time-series model. International Journal of Information and Computation Technology. 3(4), 261-266.
61. Ghosh, Himadri, Gurung, Bishal, and Prajneshu (2011). Methodology for combining linear and nonlinear time-series models for cyclical data. Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 65, 249-56.
62. ND Sharma, RS Chandel, ID Sharma, PL Sharma, Gurung, Bishal (2019). Pesticides contamination of lactating mothers' milk in the north-western Himalayan region of India. Journal of Environmental Biology, 41 (1), 23-28.
63. I Mawlong, MSS Kumar, B Kandpal, OP Premi, Gurung, Bishal (2019). A comparative study of C-allocation to seed storage compounds among genotypes of Indian mustard under N fertilization. Plant Physiology Reports, 25, 120-130.
64. N Bhanushree, P Saha, BS Tomar, SG Krishnan, Gurung, Bishal, C Ghoshal (2019). Single Marker Analysis and Mapping of QTLs Governing Fruit Weight in Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,                        India        Section                 B: Biological        Sciences (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40011-019-01149-y)
65. T Varatharajan, AK Choudhary, V Pooniya, A Dass, MC Meena, Gurung, Bishal (2019) Influence of integrated crop management practices on yield, PAR interception, resource-use-efficiency and energetics in pigeonpea in North Indian Plains. Journal of Environmental Biology, 40 (6), 1204-1210.
66. N Bhanushree, P Saha, BS Tomar, YA Lyngdoh, GS Krishnan, Gurung, Bishal (2019) Genetic variability study for yield components and anthocyanin in eggplant (Solanum melongena). Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 89 (7), 22-25.
67. RS Shekhawat, KN Singh, MS Bhattarai, Gurung, Bishal, A Lama, KP Sarkar (2019) Growth and diffusion dynamics of tractor in Punjab. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 89 (6), 1054-1056.
68. KN Singh, KK Singh, S Kumar, S Panwar, Gurung, Bishal (2019) Forecasting crop yield through weather indices through LASSO. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 89 (3), 540-544.
69. S Aiswarya, M Wason, RN Padaria, DUM Rao, R Gills, P Priyadarshini, Gurung, Bishal (2019) Assessing the Level of Effectiveness of Training Programmes for Enhancing Core Competencies of Extension Personnel: An Analytical Study in Kerala. Indian Research Journal of Extension Education, 19 (1), 73-76.
70. G Managuli, JP Sharma, R Gills, RR Burman, Gurung, Bishal, S Sahu (2019). Analysis of the Constraints from Farmer’s Perspective in Agricultural Knowledge Creation, Information Management and Technology Delivery Systems (AgriKITS) in Bundelkhand. Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development, 14 (1), 93-96
71. N Bhanushree, P Saha, BS Tomar, YA Lyngdoh, SG Krishnan, Gurung, Bishal (2019) Genetic analysis and identification of molecular marker linked to the gene for fruit skin colour in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.). Vegetable Science 45 (2), 149-153
72. L Muralikrishnan, S Bishnoi, V Sangeetha, V Lenin, S Barua, Gurung, Bishal (2019) A Study on Assessment of Rural Household's Consumption Pattern in Different Arid Regions of India. Indian Journal of Extension Education, 55 (1), 61-65
73. S Gireesh, NV Kumbhare, MS Nain, P Kumar, Gurung, Bishal (2018) Yield gap and constraints in production of major pulses in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Indian Journal of Agricultural Research, 53 (1), 104-107
74. A Lama, KN Singh, K Sinha, RS Shekhawat, M Yeasin, Gurung, Bishal (2018) Modelling transmission of potato price volatility in West Bengal markets: MGARCH approach. Society for Application of Statistics in Agriculture and Allied Sciences, 3(1), 33-38.
75. RS Shekhawat, KN Singh, A Kumar, KP Sarkar, R Doni, Gurung, Bishal (2018) Stochastic volatility in mean model for capturing the conditional variance in volatile time series data. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 88 (10), 1644- 1647.
76. RS Shekhawat, KN Singh, A Lama, Gurung, Bishal (2018) Price Discovery and Co- Integration Analysis between Spot and Futures Prices of Refined Soy Oil in India. Int. J. Curr. Microbiol. App. Sci, 7 (11), 40-46.
77. S Panwar, A Kumar, KN Singh, SK Sarkar, Gurung, Bishal, A Rathore (2018) Growth modelling and forecasting of common carp and silver carp in culture ponds: A re-parametrisation approach. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 65 (3), 99-104.
78. S Aiswarya, M Wason, RN Padaria, DUM Rao, R Gills, P Priyadarshini, Gurung, Bishal (2018) Training Need Assessment for Core Competencies of Agricultural Extension Personnel in Kerala: An Analytical Study. Indian Journal of Extension Education, 54 (3), 142-145
79. K Sinha, S Panwar, W Alam, KN Singh, Gurung, Bishal, RK Paul, A Mukherjee (2018) Price volatility spillover of Indian onion markets: A comparative study. Indian Journal Of Agricultural Sciences, 88 (1), 114-120
80. Gurung, Bishal, Prajneshu (2018) Gompertz Stochastic Differential Equation growth model with discrete delay: application in forecasting all India marine and inland fish production. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 65 (3), 95-98.
81. Lama, A., Singh, K.N., Sinha, K., Shekhawat, R.S., Md. Yeasin and Gurung, Bishal (2019) Modelling transmission of potato price volatility in West Bengal markets: MGARCH approach. RASHI, 3(1), 33-38.

SOFTWARE PACKAGES DEVELOPED IN R- SOFTWARE

1. Package “BayesBEKK”: Bayesian Estimation of Bivariate Volatility Model. Developed by Achal Lama, KN Singh, and Bishal Gurung
2. Package BayesARIMAX: Bayesian Estimation of ARIMAX Model. Developed by Achal Lama, KN Singh, and Bishal Gurung
3. Package AutoWeatherIndices 0.1.0:  R software package. Developed by Achal Lama, KN Singh, and Bishal Gurung
4. Package ‘EXPARMA’ 0.1.0:  R software package. Developed by Bishal Gurung, Saikath Das, Achal Lama, and KN Singh
5. A computer based automatic system named WIAYFS (Weather Indices based Automated Yield Forecasting Systems) has been developed and hosted at ICAR-IASRI server http://wiayfs.icar.gov.in/wiayfs/ for forecasting yields of different crops at various locations.

Book chapters

1. Gurung, Bishal, Singh, K.N., and Panwar, S. (2015) Use of particle swarm optimization technique in time-series analysis, 240-243. Published by Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. ICAR-IASRI Campus, Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi.
2. Saha, ND, Saha, P, Gurung, Bishal and Bhowmik, A (2015). Application of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) for enhanced crop growth. Krishisewa: Agriculture Information Hub of Indian Farmers. Available at http://www.krishisewa.com/articles/soil-fertility/636-pgpr-crop-growth.html.
3. Hemlata Bharti, P. Manivel, Bishal Gurung , Jitendra Kumar (2016). Multivariate analysis of yield associated traits in safed musli (Chlorophytum borivilianum) genotypes in Semi-arid region of India-An Endangered Species. In: Chaddha, K.L. Singh, S.K., Kalia, P., Dhillon, W.S., Behera, T.K., Prakash, Jai (Ed.) 2016. In: Book of Abstract, 7th The Horticultural Society of India, Platinum Jubilee of HSI-An International Meet on Doubling Farmers Income through Horticulture at B.P. Pal Auditorium, IARI, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, November 15-18th, 2016. pp. 3-4.
4. Lama, A., Singh, K.N. and Gurung, Bishal (2018). Forecasting Asymmetric Volatility of Price Index of Ragi in India under Structural Break Uncertainty. e-Proceedings Research Frontiers in Precision Agriculture, 312-313, ISBN: 978-93-88237-13-0. Excel India Publication, New Delhi.
5. Lama, A., Singh, K.N., Shekhawat, R.S., Sinha, K. and Gurung, Bishal (2019). Discriminant function analysis. Quantitative Methods for social Sciences, 121-128, ISBN: 978-81-940080-2-6.
6. Shekhawat, R.S., Singh, K.N., Lama, A. and Gurung, Bishal (2019). Introduction to Panel data regression models. Quantitative Methods for social Sciences, 78-87, ISBN: 978-81-940080-2-6.