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Apr 4, 2023 · An Indian scientist and applied statistician named Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972) built the groundwork for India’s institutional economic planning. He was the first to apply statistical methods to anticipate, plan, analyze, and evaluate social and economic welfare operations in the country, as a member of the first Planning Commission of independent India.
Jun 29, 2018 · Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis is considered the pioneer on atthropometry studies. He is renowned for creating a statistical measure called Mahalanobis distance. The Google Doodle marked his 125th ...
Oct 12, 2022 · Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (P. C. Mahalanobis) was born in the city of Calcutta in a cultured and educated Bengali Brahmo family on 29 June 1893. His father Prabodh Chandra was an artistic person with a special love for painting. But professionally he was associated with the family medicine shop.
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was an Indian scientist and applied statistician who devised the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute and played a key role in formulating India’s strategy for industrialization in the Second Five-Year Plan (1956–61).
Jan 12, 2023 · Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ( Bengali: প্রশান্ত চন্দ্র মহলানবিস) ( June 29, 1893 – June 28, 1972) was a renowned Indian scientist and applied statistician. He was popularly address as P.C.Mahalanobis. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. He made pioneering ...
Jun 29, 2018 · Here are ten things to know about Mahalanobis: 1) Mahalanobis received his Bachelor of Science degree from Presidency College in Calcutta, where he learnt from some of India’s most distinguished scientists—Jagadish Chandra Bose and Prafulla Chandra Ray. Meanwhile, legendary astrophysicist Meghnad Saha and anti-colonial hero Subhash Chandra ...
Jun 29, 2018 · Since 2007, June 29 has been commemorated as World Statics Day to acknowledge Mahalabonis’ pioneering contribution in the field of Statistics.
