Raghu Raj Bahadur (30 April 1924 – 7 June 1997) was an Indian statistician considered by peers to be "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics".[1][2]
Raghu Raj Bahadur | |
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| Born | 30 April 1924 New Delhi, India |
| Died | 7 June 1997 (aged 73) |
| Alma mater | St. Stephen’s College, Delhi Delhi University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Known for | Bahadur efficiency Anderson–Bahadur algorithm Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical statistics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
Biography
editBahadur was born in Delhi, India, and received his BA (1943) and MA (1945) in mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi .[3][4] He received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina under Herbert Robbins in 1950 after which he joined University of Chicago. He worked as a research statistician at the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta from 1956 to 1961. He spent the remainder of his academic career in the University of Chicago. He was a cousin to Madhur Jaffrey.[5]
Contributions
editHe published numerous papers[6] and is best known for the concepts of "Bahadur efficiency"[7] and the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation (with J. K. Ghosh and Jack Kiefer).[8]
He also framed the Anderson–Bahadur algorithm[9] along with Theodore Wilbur Anderson which is used in statistics and engineering for solving binary classification problems when the underlying data have multivariate normal distributions with different covariance matrices.
Legacy
editHe held the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1968–69)[10] and was the 1974 Wald Lecturer of the IMS.[4] He was the President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics during 1974–75[10] and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.[11]
References
edit- ^ "Obituary: Raghu Raj Bahadur, Statistics". The University of Chicago Chronicle. 12 June 1997. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ Tony Marcano (13 June 1997). "R. R. Bahadur, 73; Created Statistical Concept". The New York Times. p. D 21. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ Bahadur, Raghu Raj; Stigler, Stephen M. (2002). "RR Bahadur's Lectures on the Theory of Estimation". ISBN 9780940600539.
- ^ a b "Raghu Raj Bahadur". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Marcano, Tony (13 June 1997). "R. R. Bahadur, 73; Created Statistical Concept". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
- ^ [1] Bahadur's CV hosted at University of Chicago
- ^ [2] A paper about Bahadur efficiency
- ^ Lahiri, S. N (1992). "On the Bahadur—Ghosh—Kiefer representation of sample quantiles". Statistics & Probability Letters. 15 (2): 163–168. doi:10.1016/0167-7152(92)90130-w.
- ^ Classification into two multivariate normal distributions with different covariance matrices (1962), T W Anderson, R R Bahadur, Annals of Mathematical Statistics
- ^ a b "Raghu Raj Bahadur". Indian National Science Academy. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 5 May 2011.