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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

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Gender Male
Death52 years ago
Date of birth June 29,1893
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Kolkata
India
Date of died June 28,1972
DiedKolkata
India
ParentsPrabodh Chandra Mahalanobis
FieldMathematical statistics
BooksExperiments in Statistical Sampling in the Indian Statistical Institute
Spouse Nirmal Kumari Mahalanobis
Known forMahalanobis distance; Feldman–Mahalanobis model
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society
Education King's College, Cambridge
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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Life story


Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS was an Indian scientist and statistician from erstwhile Bengal. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first Planning Commission of free India.

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