Let's Know About A 'STAT' genINDIAus

http://www5555.morris.umn.edu/~sungurea/introstat/history/indexhistory.shtml
Calyampudi Radhakrishnan Rao

* A 'quick' and 'brief' sketch of His remarkable achievements:
(ref: http://www5555.morris.umn.edu/~sungurea/introstat/history/w98/Rao.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyampudi_Radhakrishna_Rao)

-worked under Mahalanobis at Indian Statistical Institute,
KolKata

-Ph.D. under R. A. Fisher

-famous result of Rao's is the Cramer-Rao inequality

-remarkable Rao-Blackwell theorem

-a lot of work in many different areas include multivariate analysis, estimation, second-order efficiency, differential geometry, and orthogonal arrays.

-One of his books, Linear Statistical Inference, has already been translated in six major languages

-received nineteen honorary doctorate degrees from Universities around the world.

* "a living legend whose work has influenced not just statistics, but has had far reaching implications for fields as varied as economics, genetics, anthropology, geology, national planning, demography, biometry, and medicine."
-The American Statistical Association

* The Times of India listed Rao as one of the top 10 Indian scientists of all time.

* 'youtube' video
(in Telugu)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpCBVBZNvwg

yours STAT-lovingly,
sai bhai.