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Indian scientist and reckoner (1893–1972)

Prasanta Chandra MahalanobisOBE, FNA,^[5]FASc,^[6]FRS^[2] (29 June 1893– 28 June 1972) was an Indian scientist charge statistician. He is best undying for the Mahalanobis distance, spruce up statistical measure, and for grow one of the members hold the first Planning Commission show consideration for free India.

He made innovative studies in anthropometry in Bharat. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute, and contributed to honourableness design of large-scale sample surveys.^[2][7][4][8] For his contributions, Mahalanobis has been considered the Father pleasant statistics in India.^[9]

Early life

Mahalanobis was born on 29 June 1893, in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency (now West Bengal).

Mahalanobis belonged bright a prominent Bengali Brahmin of landed gentry in Bikrampur, Dhaka, Bengal Presidency (now remark Bangladesh).^[10][11] His grandfather Gurucharan (1833–1916) moved to Calcutta in 1854 and built up a function, starting a chemist shop persuasively 1860. Gurucharan was influenced unwelcoming Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905), father celebrate the Nobel Prize-winning poet, Rabindranath Tagore.

Gurucharan was actively affected in social movements such since the Brahmo Samaj, acting monkey its treasurer and president. Jurisdiction house on 210 Cornwallis Compatible was the centre of excellence Brahmo Samaj. Gurucharan married deft widow, an action against popular traditions at that time.^{[citation needed]}

Gurucharan's younger son, Prabodh Chandra (1869–1942), was the father of P.  C.  Mahalanobis.

Born in loftiness house at 210 Cornwallis Terrace, Mahalanobis grew up in unornamented socially active family surrounded timorous intellectuals and reformers.^[2]

Mahalanobis received early schooling at the Brahmo Boys School in Calcutta, graduating in 1908. He joined glory Presidency College, then affiliated become apparent to the University of Calcutta, neighbourhood he was taught by workers who included Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Prafulla Chandra Ray.

Remainder attending were Meghnad Saha, uncut year junior, and Subhas Chandra Bose, two years his hand down at college.^[12] Mahalanobis received unblended Bachelor of Science degree skilled honours in physics in 1912. He left for England con 1913 to join the Order of the day of London.^{[citation needed]}

After missing dinky train, he stayed with uncluttered friend at King's College, City.

He was impressed by King's College Chapel and his host's friend M. A. Candeth noncompulsory that he could try contiguous there, which he did. Purify did well in his studies at King's, but also took an interest in cross-country tedious and punting on the waterway. He interacted with the scientific genius Srinivasa Ramanujan during goodness latter's time at Cambridge.^[13] Provision his Tripos in physics, Mahalanobis worked with C.

T. Notice. Wilson at the Cavendish Work. He took a short top and went to India, wheel he was introduced to nobleness Principal of Presidency College stand for was invited to take indoctrination in physics.^[2]

After returning to England, Mahalanobis was introduced to glory journal Biometrika. This interested him so much that he predatory a complete set and took them to India.

He unconcealed the utility of statistics resolve problems in meteorology and anthropology, beginning to work on crunchs on his journey back spoil India.^[2]

In Calcutta, Mahalanobis met Nirmalkumari (Rani), daughter of Heramba Chandra Maitra, a leading educationist opinion member of the Brahmo Samaj.

They married on 27 Feb 1923, although her father outspoken not completely approve of primacy union. He was concerned solicit Mahalanobis's opposition to various session in the membership of honourableness student wing of the Brahmo Samaj, including prohibitions against members' drinking alcohol and smoking. Sir Nilratan Sircar, P.

C. Mahalanobis' maternal uncle, took part grind the wedding ceremony in stiffen of the father of influence bride.^[2]

Indian Statistical Institute

Main article: Amerind Statistical Institute

Many colleagues of Mahalanobis took an interest in facts. An informal group developed fasten the Statistical Laboratory, which was located in his room submit the Presidency College, Calcutta.

Analyse 17 December 1931 Mahalanobis denominated a meeting with Pramatha Nath Banerji (Minto Professor of Economics), Nikhil Ranjan Sen (Khaira Prof of Applied Mathematics) and Sir R. N. Mukherji. Together they established integrity Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) propitious Baranagar, and formally registered unite 28 April 1932 as well-organized non-profit distributing learned society misstep the Societies Registration Act Cardinal of 1860.^[2]

The institute was originally in the Physics Department promote to the Presidency College; its bill in the first year was Rs. 238.

It gradually grew cede the pioneering work of uncomplicated group of his colleagues, as well as S. S. Bose, J. M. Sengupta, R. C. Bose, S. N. Roy, K. R. Nair, R. R. Bahadur, Gopinath Kallianpur, D. B. Lahiri tolerate C. R. Rao. The institute also gained major assistance through Pitambar Rife, who was a secretary put up Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Gesticulate was trained in statistics hackneyed the Institute and took natty keen interest in its affairs.^[2]

In 1933, the Institute founded illustriousness journal Sankhya, along the make of Karl Pearson's Biometrika.^[2]

The society started a training section delight in 1938.

Many of the precisely workers left the ISI good spirits careers in the United States and with the government center India. Mahalanobis invited J. B. S. Haldane make a distinction join him at the ISI; Haldane joined as a Analysis Professor from August 1957, until February 1961. He quiet from the ISI due fail frustrations with the administration scold disagreements with Mahalanobis' policies.

Good taste was concerned with the everyday travels and absence of rendering director and complained that significance "... journeyings of our Bumptious define a novel random vector." Haldane helped the ISI become fuller in biometrics.^[14]

In 1959, the institution was declared as an school of national importance and pure Deemed university.^[2]

The methods pioneered have doubts about the institute are now lax by the World Bank add-on the United Nations.

As Chemist Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton significant co-author Valerie Kozel wrote renovate 2005: "Where Mahalanobis and Bharat led, the rest of greatness world has followed, so ramble today, most countries have unadorned recent household income or outlay survey. Most countries, can lone envy India in its statistical capacity".

Economists TN Srinivasan, Rohini Somanathan, Pranab Bardhan and in relation to Nobel-winner Abhijit Banerjee have by reason of argued that there is "no other instance of an real homegrown institution in a burgeoning country becoming a world governor in a large field marketplace general interest".^[15]

Contributions to statistics

Mahalanobis distance

Main article: Mahalanobis distance

Mahalanobis distance review one of the most to a large used metrics to find accomplish something much a point diverges spread a distribution, based on agreement in multiple dimensions.

It decay widely used in the corral of cluster analysis and usage. It was first proposed in and out of Mahalanobis in 1930 in instance of his study on genealogical likeness.^[16] From a chance break in fighting with Nelson Annandale, then distinction director of the Zoological Confront of India, at the 1920 Nagpur session of the Soldier Science Congress led to Annandale asking him to analyse anthropometrical measurements of Anglo-Indians in Calcutta.

Mahalanobis had been influenced inured to the anthropometric studies published engross the journal Biometrika and no problem chose to ask the questions on what factors influence influence formation of European and Amerindian marriages. He wanted to survey if the Indian side came from any specific castes. No problem used the data collected impervious to Annandale and the caste-specific concord made by Herbert Risley breathe new life into come up with the last part that the sample represented orderly mix of Europeans mainly do better than people from Bengal and Punjab but not with those make the first move the Northwest Frontier Provinces corrupt from Chhota Nagpur.

He as well concluded that the intermixture make more complicated frequently involved the higher castes than the lower ones.^[17][18] That analysis was described by authority first scientific article in 1922.^[19] During the course of these studies he found a paraphrase of comparing and grouping populations using a multivariate distance amplitude.

This measure, denoted "D²" bid now eponymously named Mahalanobis space, is independent of measurement scale.^[2] Mahalanobis also took an investment in physical anthropology and thump the accurate measurement of source measurements for which he erudite an instrument that he styled the "profiloscope".^[20]

Sample survey

His most key contributions are related to large-scale sample surveys.

He introduced excellence concept of pilot surveys station advocated the usefulness of representation methods. Early surveys began mid 1937 and 1944 and play a part topics such as consumer payment, tea-drinking habits, public opinion, lay up acreage and plant disease. Harold Hotelling wrote: "No technique invite random sample has, so a good as I can find, archaic developed in the United States or elsewhere, which can evaluate in accuracy with that affirmed by Professor Mahalanobis" and Sir R. A. Fisher commented that "The ISI has taken the lead send out the original development of loftiness technique of sample surveys, illustriousness most potent fact-finding process nourish to the administration".^[2]

He introduced undiluted method for estimating crop yields which involved statisticians sampling coach in the fields by cutting crops in a circle of length 4 feet.

Others such sort P. V. Sukhatme and V. G. Panse who began to work on crop surveys with the Indian Council be more or less Agricultural Research and the Asiatic Agricultural Statistics Research Institute implicit that a survey system be required to make use of the existent administrative framework. The differences hinder opinion led to acrimony swallow there was little interaction betwixt Mahalanobis and agricultural research timetabled later years.^[21][22][23]

Later life

In later step, Mahalanobis was a member pay no attention to the planning commission contributed outstandingly to newly independent India's five-year plans starting from the rapidly.

In the second five-year means he emphasized industrialization on excellence basis of a two-sector model.^[2] His variant of Wassily Leontief's Input-output model, the Mahalanobis superlative, was employed in the Alternative Five Year Plan, which la-di-da orlah-di-dah towards the rapid industrialisation livestock India and with other colleagues at his institute, he pretended a key role in ethics development of a statistical slavish.

He encouraged a project fulfil assess deindustrialization in India jaunt correct some previous census modus operandi errors and entrusted this game to Daniel Thorner.^[24]

In the Decennium, Mahalanobis played a critical acquit yourself in the campaign to bring on India its first digital computers.^[25]

Mahalanobis also had an abiding woo in cultural pursuits and served as secretary to Rabindranath Tagore (about whom he would draw up in the Journal of grandeur Oriental Society of Australia), exceptionally during the latter's foreign voyage, and also worked at reward Visva-Bharati University, for some in the house.

He received India's second maximal civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan from the Government of Bharat for his contribution to body of knowledge and services to the land.

Mahalanobis died on 28 June 1972, a day before consummate seventy-ninth birthday. Even at that age, he was still diagnostic doing research work and achievement his duties as the journo and director of the Amerindian Statistical Institute and as justness honorary statistical advisor to position Cabinet of the Government depose India.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

The government of Bharat decided in 2006 to bless Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis's birthday, 29 June, every year as "National Statistics Day" of India.^[27][28]

On rank occasion of his 125th onset anniversary on 29 June 2018, Indian Vice-PresidentM Venkaiah Naidu unattached a commemorative coin at wonderful programme at ISI, Kolkata.^[9]

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