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Jayanta Kumar Ghosh

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Nationality
  
Indian

Fields
  
Statistician

Education
  
University of Calcutta

Name
  
Jayanta Ghosh


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Born
  
May 23, 1937 (age 86) India (
1937-05-23
)

Institutions
  
Indian Statistical InstitutePurdue University

Books
  
Bayesian nonparametrics, Higher order asymptotics

Alma mater
  
University of Calcutta


Similar
  
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Jayanta Kumar Ghosh or Jaẏanta Kumāra Ghosha (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, born May 23, 1937) is an Indian statistician, currently emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University.

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Education

He obtained a B.S. from Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta. He started his research career in the early 1960s, studying sequential analysis as a graduate student in the department of statistics at the University of Calcutta.

Research

Among his best-known discoveries are the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation (with R. R. Bahadur and Jack Kiefer) and the Ghosh–Pratt identity along with John W. Pratt.

His research contributions fall within the fields of:

  • Bayesian inference
  • Asymptotics
  • Modeling and model selection
  • High dimensional data analysis
  • Nonparametric regression and density estimation
  • Survival analysis
  • Statistical genetics

    • Awards/Honors

  • Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
  • Advisory Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
  • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
  • Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
  • Life Member and Director of the Calcutta Statistical Association
  • Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
  • Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 1978
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 1981
  • President, Statistics Section of the Indian Science Congress Association, 1991
  • President, International Statistical Institute, 1993
  • Mahalanobis Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress Association, 1998
  • P. V. Sukhatme Prize for Statistics, 2000
  • Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, State Science and Technology Congress, W. Bengal, 2003
  • D.Sc. (h.c.), B.C. Roy Agricultural University, W. Bengal, India, 2006
  • Padma Shree (2014) by the Government of India

    • References

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