C. R. Rao

CR Rao ( Radhakrishna Rao Calyampudi; 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 degree in Statistics at the University of Calcutta. He received his doctorate ( Ph.D.) in 1948 from the University of Cambridge in Ronald Fisher (Statistical Problems of Biological Classifications ), where he also received the Doctor of Science in 1965, and taught at the long Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, where among other things, Srinivasa SR Varadhan, KR Parthasarathy and Varadarajan were his pupils. He is Professor Emeritus at Penn State University. Rao is one of the most internationally renowned statistician and proved among other things, the Cramér -Rao inequality and the set of Rao -Blackwell.

Rao is a member of the National Academies of Sciences in the USA ( National Academy of Sciences ), UK ( 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.

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