Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

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Bachelors Physics University of Calcutta

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According to Wikipedia, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS was an Indian scientist and statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first Planning Commission of free India. He made pioneering studies in anthropometry in India. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute, and contributed to the design of large-scale sample surveys. For his contributions, Mahalanobis has been considered the Father of statistics in India.

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On the generalized distance in statistics (1936) (6313)
Anthropometric survey of the United Provinces, 1941: a statistical study. (1949) (154)
Experiments in statistical sampling in the Indian Statistical Institute (1961) (149)
On large-scale sample surveys (1944) (124)
Analysis of race-mixture in Bengal (121)
A Method of Fractile Graphical Analysis (1960) (92)
Essays in probability and statistics (1971) (90)
Experiments in Statistical Sampling in the Indian Statistical Institute. (1962) (88)
The approach of operational research to planning in India (1963) (85)
A sample survey of the acreage under jute in Bengal. (1940) (63)
A sample survey of after-effects of the Bengal famine of 1943 (1946) (35)
Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1964) (26)
Talks on planning (1961) (17)
Statistics as a Key Technology (1965) (17)
A STATISTICAL STUDY OF CERTAIN ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS FROM SWEDEN (1930) (17)
ON THE NEED FOR STANDARDISATION IN MEASUREMENTS ON THE LIVING (1928) (15)
Race elements in Bengal : a quantitative study (1961) (15)
Report on rainfall and floods in North Bengal, 1870-1922 (11)
Growth of population of India and Pakistan, 1801-1961 (1976) (11)
Principles of Management and Organizational Behaviour (1965) (11)
Science and national planning. (1958) (9)
Sankhya - The Indian Journal Of Statistics - Series 'A' Methods And Techniques Vol-29 (1967) (7)
A preliminary note on the consumption of cereals in India. (1963) (7)
Use of Small-Size Plots in Sample Surveys for Crop Yields (1946) (7)
THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS (1954) (7)
Some personal memories of R A Fisher (1964) (6)
Famine and rehabilitation in Bengal (1946) (5)
FRACTILE GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS (1965) (5)
Extensions of fractile graphical analysis (1969) (4)
Recommendations for the formulation of the second five year plan (1955) (3)
Labour problems in a mixed economy (1960) (2)
Correlation of Upper Air Variables (1923) (2)
Syllabus for an Advanced Professional Course in Statistical Sampling (1950) (2)
Sample census of area under jute in Bengal, 1940 (1968) (2)
The social transformation for national development (1962) (2)
Next steps in planning. (1960) (2)
Recent developments in the organization of science (1959) (2)
A technical note on age grouping (1958) (2)
The problems of Indian society (1968) (2)
ON THE SEAT OF ACTIVITY IN THE UPPER AIR (1924) (2)
Role of Science in Economic and National Development ∗ (1962) (1)
A preliminary report on housing condition (1960) (1)
A simplified method of analysis of quasi factorial experiments in square lattice with a preliminary note on joint analysis of yield of paddy and straw. (1940) (1)
The university teaching of social sciences: statistics (1957) (1)
Anthropological Observations on the Anglo-Indians of Culcutta-Analysis of Male Stature (1931) (1)
Statistical notes on anthropometric sub-group constants for Bengal caste data (1)
Anthropological Observations on the Anglo-Indians of Culcutta. Part III. Statistical Analysis of Measurements of Seven Characters (1940) (1)
Technical records of sample design, instructions to field workers and list of sample villages and urban blocks (1960) (1)
Industrialization of Underdeveloped Countries—A Means to Peace (1959) (1)
On upper air correlations (1)
Report on pattern of consumer expenditure (1959) (1)
Report on sample survey of employment in Calcutta 1953 (1959) (1)
Sample verification of livestock census : 1956 (1960) (0)
Karl Pearson, 1857-1936 (1936) (0)
Jhar Bristir Katha (0)
Report on household transport operations (1958) (0)
New theory of ancient Indian chronology (1936) (0)
Report on the sample survey of manufacturing industries, 1949 and 1950 (1958) (0)
The statistical constants of an Anglo-Indian sample: Part II: Head length and head breadth (0)
Report on preliminary survey of urban unemployment September, 1953 (1956) (0)
Priorities in science in underdeveloped countries (1964) (0)
Notes on some results of the land utilisation survey (1960) (0)
Survey of Faridabad township : March-April 1954 (1954) (0)
Anthropological Observations on the Anglo-Indians of Culcutta. Part II. Analysis of Anglo-Indian Head Length (1931) (0)
Notes On Some Results Of The Land Utilization Survey - The National Sample Survey (1960) (0)
Educated persons in India 1955 (1959) (0)
Report on household retail trade (1960) (0)
On the correction of a coefficient of correlation for observational errors (0)
Some observations on the world census of agriculture 1960 (1957) (0)
A new coefficient of correlation with applications to some biological and sociological data (0)
Statistics : a survey prepared and edited on behalf of the International Statistical Institute, the Hague (1957) (0)
Proceedings of the Second Session of the Indian Statistical Conference held in Lahore, January 1939. (1940) (0)
Statistical Note on the Significant Character of Local Variation in Proportion of Dextral and Sinistral Shells in Samples of the Snail Buliminus Dextrosinister from the Salt Range, Punjab (1923) (0)
Annual report on the work done under the scheme for statistical studies relating to agricultural work in India (1936) (0)
Normal heights and weights of Bengali (Indian) women. (1935) (0)
Some aspects of cost of cultivation of Paddy, Wheat, Jowar and Bajra (1960) (0)
Report on some characteristics of the economically active population (1958) (0)
On the stability of anthropometric constants for Bengal caste data (0)
Report on rainfall and flood in North Bengal during the period 1870-1922 (0)
First report on land holdings, rural sector (1958) (0)
Tables with notes on wages, employment, income and indebtedness of agricultural labour households in rural areas (1960) (0)
Sankhya : The Indian Journal Of Statistics Vol-33 (1970) (0)
On the new compensated ballistic method for magnetic measurements, with a preliminary note on the magnetic behaviour of nickel in the form of powder under different physical stimuli (0)

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