Indian Statistical Institute

The Indian Statistical Institute ( ISI) is an institute of Statistics, the PC Mahalanobis as part of the Presidency College (now part of the University of Calcutta) in Calcutta (now Kolkata ) was established in 1931. In 1959 it became an institution of national importance by a decision of the Indian Parliament. It reports to the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation ( MOSPI ).

In addition to the main center in the suburbs of Kolkata, there are centers in Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Tezpur (from 2011) as well as branches in different cities ( like Mumbai, Hyderabad ), serve the implementation of projects and Beratungstägigkeiten in quality control and operations research.

The Institute is dedicated to research in statistics and related fields, such as mathematics, computer science and quantitative economics. In all these areas, it may also confer academic degrees and is a state university. Since the time of Mahalanobis they played an important role in the national five-year plans of India, for example, the second five-year plan was developed 1956-1961 by Mahalanobis.

Mahalanobis brought outstanding scientists to the Institute such as RC Bose. 1944-1979 CR Rao was at the Institute, other scientists were DK Ray - Chaudhuri, Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, Gopinath Kallianpur and Samarendra Nath Roy. From the mathematician training at the Institute, which was not limited to statistics, emerged known mathematicians such as VS Varadarajan, R. Ranga Rao, KR Parthasarathy and SR Srinivasa Varadhan. The latter four studied there in the early 1960s. Visiting professors and scholars were there eg JBS Haldane ( 1957-1961 ), Andrei Kolmogorov (1962 ), Norbert Wiener, Ronald Fisher, Yuri Linnik, Jerzy Neyman, Abraham Wald and Claude mountains.

They publish a journal Sankhya.

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