Jayanta Kumar Ghosh

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Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
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Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
Born(1937-05-23)23 May 1937
India
Died30 September 2017(2017-09-30) (aged 80)
USA
NationalityFlag of India.svg Indian
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
Scientific career
FieldsStatistician
InstitutionsIndian Statistical Institute
Purdue University

Jayanta Kumar Ghosh or Jaẏanta Kumāra Ghosha (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, born 23 May 1937, died 30 September 2017) was an Indian statistician, an emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University.[1]

Education[]

He obtained a B.S. from Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta under the supervision of . He started his research career in the early 1960s, studying sequential analysis as a graduate student in the department of statistics at the University of Calcutta.[2]

Research[]

Among his best-known discoveries are the (with R. R. Bahadur and Jack Kiefer)[3] and the along with John W. Pratt.[4]

His research contributions fall within the fields of:

Awards/Honors[]

  • Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
  • Advisory Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
  • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
  • Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
  • Life Member and Director of the Calcutta Statistical Association
  • Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
  • Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 1978
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 1981
  • President, Statistics Section of the Indian Science Congress Association, 1991
  • President, International Statistical Institute, 1993
  • Mahalanobis Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress Association, 1998
  • Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998[5]
  • P. V. Sukhatme Prize for Statistics, 2000
  • Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, State Science and Technology Congress, W. Bengal, 2003
  • D.Sc. (h.c.), B.C. Roy Agricultural University, W. Bengal, India, 2006
  • International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010 [6]
  • Padma Shree (2014) by the Government of India

Bibliography[]

He has published over 50 research papers. He has also published four books, which are:

  • Invariance in Testing and Estimation (Lecture Notes), 1967, published by Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.
  • Higher Order Asymptotics (based on CBMS-NSF lecture), published jointly by Institute of Mathematical Statistics and American Statistical Association, 1994.
  • (with R.V. Ramamoorthi) Bayesian Nonparametrics (Springer 2003).
  • (with Mohan Delampady and Tapas Samanta) An Introduction to Bayesian Analysis - Theory and Methods, Springer 2006.

References[]

  1. ^ Dasgupta, Anirban (16 November 2017). "Obituary: Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, 1937–2017". IMS Bulletin. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  2. ^ Clarke, Bertrand; Ghosal, Subhashis (2008). J. K. Ghosh's contribution to statistics. projecteuclid.org. ISBN 9780940600751. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  3. ^ Lahiri, S. N (1992). "On the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation of sample quantiles". Statistics & Probability Letters. 15 (2): 163–168. doi:10.1016/0167-7152(92)90130-w.
  4. ^ Casella, George (1996). "The Ghosh–Pratt Identity". Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online. doi:10.1002/9781118445112.stat01501. ISBN 9781118445112.
  5. ^ Ghosh, Jayanta K. (1998). "Bayesian density estimation". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 237–243.
  6. ^ "International Indian Statistical Association".

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