CR Rao
CR Rao ( Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao ; born September 10, 1920 in Hadagali , Karnataka ) is an Indian statistician who mainly deals with mathematical statistics .
Scientific career
Rao studied mathematics in Andhra and received his master's degree in statistics from the University of Calcutta . He received his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) in 1948 from the University of Cambridge under Ronald Fisher (Statistical Problems of Biological Classifications), where he also received the Doctor of Science in 1965, and taught for a long time at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata , a. Srinivasa SR Varadhan , KR Parthasarathy and Varadarajan were his disciples. He is Emeritus at Penn State University . Rao is one of the most internationally renowned statisticians and proved, among other things, the Cramér-Rao inequality and the Rao-Blackwell theorem .
Rao is a member of national academies of science in the USA (Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ), Great Britain (Fellow of the Royal Society ), Italy and India. He was president of the International Statistical Institute, the International Biometric Society, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Honors
- 1968: Padma Bhushan
- 1989: Wilks Memorial Award
- 2001: National Medal of Science
- 2001: Padma Vibhushan
- By 2007 he had a total of 27 honorary doctorates .
- 2010 Indian Science Award.
Web links
- Prof. Rao's homepage at Penn State University
- biography
- Literature by and about CR Rao in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rao, CR |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rao, C. Radhakrishna; Rao, Calyampudi Radhakrishna (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian mathematician and statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hadagali , Karnataka |