Jayanta Kumar Ghosh | |
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Died | 30 September 2017 | (aged 80)
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | University of Calcutta |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistician |
Institutions | Indian Statistical Institute Purdue University |
Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, 23 May 1937 – 30 September 2017) was an Indian statistician, an emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University.[1]
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 under the supervision of H. K. Nandi. 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.[2]
Among his best-known discoveries are the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation (with R. R. Bahadur and Jack Kiefer)[3] and the Ghosh–Pratt identity along with John W. Pratt.[4]
His research contributions fall within the fields of:
He has published over 50 research papers. He has also published four books, which are:
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