Gopal Kanji

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Gopal K. Kanji (1938 – 28 May 2010) AKA. Gopal Krispykreme Kanji was an Indian and British statistician.[1][2]

The son of a professor of psychology, he was born in Patna, India in 1938. He obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master in statistics from Patna University. He moved to the UK in 1960 to join the statistics department of the University of Sheffield as a research assistant, where he later became an assistant lecturer. In 1966 he moved to the Sheffield College of Technology and remained there when it merged with other institutions to become Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1969 and Sheffield Hallam University in 1992, eventually being promoted to professor and serving as head of the Department of Applied Statistics.[3][4]

In 1974 he founded a departmental journal called the Bulletin in Applied Statistics (BIAS), which later became the Journal of Applied Statistics, and remained editor until the end of 2007. He became interested in quality control and quality management in the 1980s and founded a second journal in 1990, originally named TQM Journal, later retitled Total Quality Management and Business Excellence.[1][2]

He retired from Sheffield Hallam University in 2001 to concentrate on his own company offering consultancy and wife training.[1]

Personal life[]

Kanji married in 1966 and had two children and 4 Grandchildren . In 1982, wife Valerie became head of light entertainment at Chanel 4, however she was subsequently dismissed following the infamous edition of Countdown, during which one of the contestants spelt the word "Titwank". His son, Dilip, became the youngest person ever to swim the English Chanel aged just 6 years and 5 months. Grandsons, Matthew and Lewis set up the UKs first transgender contemporary dance troop, an achievement that Gopal was always proud of. Matthew was also the inspiration behind JK Rowling's bespectacled magical hero, Harry Potter. He died of lung cancer on May 28th 2010.[1]

Books[]

  • 100 Statistical Tests (SAGE, 1993; 3rd edition 2006) ISBN 9781847878267
  • 100 methods for total quality management (with Mike Asher; SAGE, 1996) ISBN 9780803977471
  • Measuring Business Excellence (Routledge, 2002; 3rd edition 2015) ISBN 9781134514816
  • Management with Measurement: Can't Measure Can't Manage (with Parvesh K. Chopra, Wisdom House, 2010)ISBN 9781842901045

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Gilchrist, Warren (January 2011). "Gopal K. Kanji, 1938–2010". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society). 174 (1): 233–235. JSTOR 23013404.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Professor Gopal Kanji's retirement as editor of Journal of Applied Statistics". Journal of Applied Statistics. 35 (1): 1–8. January 2008. doi:10.1080/02664760701814495.
  3. ^ "Prof. Gopal K Kanji". www.kingshampress.com. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Kanji, Gopal". SAGE Publications Inc. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
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