CR Rao
| C. R. Rao | |
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Prof. Rao at Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai in April 2012
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| Born |
10 September 1920 Hadagali, Kingdom of Mysore, British India |
| Residence | India, United Kingdom, United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics and statistics |
| Institutions |
Indian Statistical Institute Cambridge University Penn State University University at Buffalo |
| Alma mater |
Andhra University University of Calcutta King's College, Cambridge |
| Thesis | Statistical Problems of Biological Classifications (1948) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ronald Fisher |
| Doctoral students | |
| Known for |
Cramér–Rao bound Rao–Blackwell theorem Orthogonal arrays Score test |
| Notable awards |
Padma Vibhushan National Medal of Science (2001) S. S. Bhatnagar Prize Guy Medal (Silver 1965, Gold 2011) |
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, FRS known as C R Rao (born 10 September 1920) is an Indian-born, naturalised American, mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honoured by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2002. The American Statistical Association has described him as "a living legend whose work has influenced not just statistics, but has had far reaching implications for fields as varied as economics, genetics, anthropology, geology, national planning, demography, biometry, and medicine."The Times of India listed Rao as one of the top 10 Indian scientists of all time. Rao is also a Senior Policy and Statistics advisor for the Indian Heart Association non-profit focused on raising South Asian cardiovascular disease awareness.
C. R. Rao was born in Hadagali, Bellary, Karnataka, India. He received an MSc in mathematics from Andhra University and an MA in statistics from Calcutta University in 1943.
Rao worked at the Indian Statistical Institute and the Anthropological Museum in Cambridge before obtaining a PhD degree at King's College in Cambridge University under R. A. Fisher in 1948, to which he added a Sc.D. degree, also from Cambridge, in 1965.
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