Raghu Raj Bahadur | |
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| Born | (1924-04-30)30 April 1924 New Delhi, British India |
| Died | 7 June 1997(1997-06-07) (aged 73) |
| Alma mater | St. Stephen’s College, Delhi Delhi University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Known for | Bahadur efficiency Anderson–Bahadur algorithm Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation |
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| Fields | Mathematical statistics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
Raghu Raj Bahadur (30 April 1924 – 7 June 1997) was an Indianstatistician considered by peers to be "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics".[1][2]
Bahadur was born inDelhi, India, and received his BA (1943) and MA (1945) in mathematics fromSt. Stephen’s College,University of Delhi .[3][4] He received his doctorate from theUniversity of North Carolina underHerbert Robbins in 1950 after which he joinedUniversity of Chicago. He worked as a research statistician at theIndian Statistical Institute in Calcutta from 1956 to 1961. He spent the remainder of his academic career in theUniversity of Chicago. He was a cousin toMadhur Jaffrey.[5]
He published numerous papers[6] and is best known for the concepts of "Bahadur efficiency"[7] and theBahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation (withJ. K. Ghosh andJack Kiefer).[8]
He also framed theAnderson–Bahadur algorithm[9] along withTheodore Wilbur Anderson which is used in statistics and engineering for solving binary classification problems when the underlying data havemultivariate normal distributions with differentcovariance matrices.
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 theInstitute of Mathematical Statistics during 1974–75[10] and was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.[11]
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