Anil Kumar Bhattacharya

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Anil Kumar Bhattacharya (born April 1, 1915 in Bhatpara , District 24 Parganas, West Bengal , † July 17, 1996 ) was an Indian statistician .

Life

Bhattacharya studied at the University of Calcutta with a master’s degree in 1938. His teachers included Friedrich Wilhelm Levi and RC Bose . He then worked for PC Mahalanobis at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), which at that time still belonged to the University of Calcutta. From 1941 he taught there and one of his students was CR Rao . From late 1943 to 1946 he was a statistician for the government in Bihar , but then returned to the ISI and became a professor at the Presidency College and from 1949 head of its statistics department. In 1974 he retired and then taught at Ramakrishna Mission Residential College.

He is known for his work on the deviation of statistical distributions from one another, where he introduced the Bhattacharya coefficient and the Bhattacharya distance. His teacher Mahalanobis, who introduced a Mahalanobis distance named after him in 1936 , had already dealt with similar questions .

He also dealt with extensions of the Cramér-Rao inequality and the characterization of bivariate normal distributions.

literature

  • SP Mukherjee, A. Chaudhuri, SK Basu (Eds.) Essays on Probability and Statistics: Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Anil Kumar Bhattacharya , Department of Statistics, Presidency College, Calcutta 1994, Review in Sankhya by S. Dasgupta, pdf

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bhattacharya On a measure of divergence between two statistical populations defined by their probability distributions , Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society 35, 1943, 99-109
  2. ^ G. Chaudhuri Bhattacharya Distance , Springer Encyclopedia of Mathematics
personal data
SURNAME Bhattacharya, Anil Kumar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian statistician
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Bhatpara
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1996