C. R. Rao
Calyampudi Radhakrishnan Rao (born September 10, 1920) is a famous Indian statistician and currently professor emeritus at Penn State University. He was born in Hadagali, Karnataka state, India.
He received an M.S. in mathematics from Andhra University and an M.S. in Statistics from Calcutta University in 1943.
Rao worked at the Indian Statistical Institute and the Anthropological Museum in Cambridge before acquiring a Ph.D. at King's College under R.A. Fisher in 1948, to which he added a Sc.D. also from Cambridge in 1965.
Among his best known discoveries are the Cramér-Rao inequality and the Rao-Blackwell theorem both related to the quality of estimators. Other areas he worked in include multivariate analysis, estimation and differential geometry.
Dr. Rao is a Wilks and Mahalanobis medalist; a member of eight National Academies in India, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy; he has received dozens of medals, citations, awards, and other honors for his contributions to statistics and science. Dr. Rao was awarded the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in fields of scientific research, in June 2002.
External links
- ET Interviews: Professor C. R. Rao on the Econometric Theory page.
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