Indian-American statistician (1924–1997)
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]
Biography
Bahadur 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
He 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
He 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
^ "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 .
^ 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 .
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