• DOI:10.1098/rsbm.1973.0017
Corpus ID: 74582754

Prasantha Chandra Mahalanobis, 1893-1972

@article{Rao1973PrasanthaCM,
  title={Prasantha Chandra Mahalanobis, 1893-1972},
  author={Calyampudi R. Rao},
  journal={Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society},
  year={1973},
  pages={455 - 492}
}

Calyampudi R. Rao

Published 1973

Computer Science

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

Prasantha Chandra Mahalanobis died on 28 June 1972, three weeks after an abdominal operation in a nursing home at Calcutta. The death occurred one day before his seventy-ninth birthday when he was still active doing research work, managing the affairs of the Indian Statistical Institute as its Secretary and Director, and working for the Indian Government as Honorary Statistical Adviser to the Cabinet. The Professor, as Mahalanobis was popularly known, was a physicist by training, a statistician… CONTINUE READING

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