Synopses & Reviews
Selected Papers of C.R. Rao (in five volumes) The statistical career of C.R. Rao, the most famous statistician from India, a Fellow of the Royal Society and founder of the Research-and Training School of the Indian Statistical Institute spans nearly half a century. The Selected papers reflect the trends of research in statistical methodology and data analysis during the last fifty years. These volumes constitute a rich and valuable source of reference for all statisticians who are interested in research, education or practice of statistical methods in any area of application.
Synopsis
The first one of its kind, this book compiles autobiographical essays on the scientific lives of ten leading Indian statisticians who emerged from the great statistical movement initiated and guided by P.C. Mahalanobis, the founder of the Indian Statistical Institute. The success achieved by them in their creative endeavours as well as the difficulties that they encountered have been detailed. The present volume will serve as a source of inspiration for aspiring young statisticians as well as a permanent record of development of statistics as a discipline in India.
About the Author
Professor J.K. Ghosh, currently the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, is a world- renowned statistician with significant contributions in Statistical Inference, Sequential Analysis and Asymptotic Methods in statistics. He is a winner of the Bhatnagar Prize and a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (USA). Professor S.K. Mitra, Head of the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit at the Delhi Centre of the Indian Statistical Institute, is a distinguished scientist whose contributions in the fields of Sample Surveys, Linear Algebra and Linear Models are well known. He is the co-author with C.R. Rao of the books: (1) Generalized Inverse of Matrices and Its Applications (Wiley, New York, 1971) (2) Formula and Tables of Statistical Work (with C.R. Rao, A. Mathai and K.G. Ramamurthy) Statistical Publishing Society, Calcutta, 1966). He is a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (USA). Professor K.R. Parthasarathy is a distinguished probability theorist whose contributions in the field of quantum stochastic calculus and limit theorems for probability measures in metric spaces and groups are well known. He was formerly Professor at the Universities of Manchester and Bombay and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Currently he holds the position of Distinguished Scientist at the Delhi Centre of the Indian Statistical Institute. He is a Bhatnagar Prize winner and a fellow of all the three academies Of science in India. All the three are editors of Sankhy???, the Indian Journal of Statistics.
Table of Contents
Remarks on Transitive Sufficiency (R. Bahadur).
Learning from Counterexamples: At the Indian Statistical Institute in the Early Fifties (D. Basu).
My Quest for Research Ideas (V. Huzurbazar).
Random Reflections (G. Kallianpur).
From Number Theory to National Sample Survey: An Autobiographical Letter (D. Lahiri).
Random Processes and Probabilistic Functional Analysis: Some Contributions (P. Masani).
In Statistics by Design (K. Nair).
Statistics as a Last Resort: An Autobiographical Account (C. Rao).
Combinatorics and I (S. Shrikhande).
Statistics, Nutrition, Education and Social Change (P. Sukhatme).