Raghu Raj Bahadur

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Raghu Raj Bahadur
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Born(1924-04-30)30 April 1924
New Delhi, India
Died7 June 1997(1997-06-07) (aged 73)
NationalityIndian
Alma materDelhi University
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Known for

Scientific career
FieldsMathematical statistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago

Raghu Raj Bahadur (30 April 1924 – 7 June 1997) was an Indian statistician considered by peers to be "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics".[1]

Biography[]

Bahadur was born in Delhi, India, and received his BA (1943)[2] and MA (1945)[2] in mathematics from University of Delhi. He received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina under Herbert Robbins in 1950 after which he joined University of Chicago. He worked as a research statistician at the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta from 1956 to 1961. He spent the remainder of his academic career in the University of Chicago.[3]

Contributions[]

He published numerous papers[4] and is best known for the concepts of ""[5] and the (with J. K. Ghosh and Jack Kiefer).[6]

He also framed the [7] along with Theodore Wilbur Anderson which is used in statistics and engineering for solving binary classification problems when the underlying data have multivariate normal distributions with different covariance matrices.

Legacy[]

He held the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1968–69)[8] and was the 1974 Wald Lecturer of the IMS.[2] He was the President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics during 1974–75[8] and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Obituary: Raghu Raj Bahadur, Statistics". The University of Chicago Chronicle. 12 June 1997. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Raghu Raj Bahadur". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 17 June 2013. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Marcano, Tony (13 June 1997). "R. R. Bahadur, 73; Created Statistical Concept". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  4. ^ [1] Bahadur's CV hosted at University of Chicago
  5. ^ [2] A paper about Bahadur efficiency
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Classification into two multivariate normal distributions with different covariance matrices (1962), T W Anderson, R R Bahadur, Annals of Mathematical Statistics
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "Raghu Raj Bahadur". Indian National Science Academy. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  9. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 5 May 2011.

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