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	His first post was as a statistician with the [[United Nations]], a post he held from 1954 until 1962. One of his achievements at that post was the founding of the Statistical Center of the [[University of the Philippines]]. He was a visiting Professor and Advisor to the University of Philippines for a number of years and supervised graduate students there. In 1962 Pillai was appointed Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at [[Purdue University]]. Pillai's research was in [[statistics]], in particular in multivariate statistical analysis. Pillai was honoured by being elected a Fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]] and a Fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]]. He was an elected member of the [[International Statistical Institute]].		His first post was as a statistician with the [[United Nations]], a post he held from 1954 until 1962. One of his achievements at that post was the founding of the Statistical Center of the [[University of the Philippines]]. He was a visiting Professor and Advisor to the University of Philippines for a number of years and supervised graduate students there. In 1962 Pillai was appointed Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at [[Purdue University]]. Pillai's research was in [[statistics]], in particular in multivariate statistical analysis. Pillai was honoured by being elected a Fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]] and a Fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]]. He was an elected member of the [[International Statistical Institute]].

	He was a keen golfer too.		He was a keen [[Golf\|golfer]] too.

	He died on 5 June 1985 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA.		He died on 5 June 1985 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

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{{Infobox scientist
|name = K C Sreedharan Pillai
|birth_date = 1920
|birth_place = [[Travancore]]
|nationality = Indian-American
|death_date = 1985
|death_place = [[Lafayette, Indiana]], United States
|field = [[Statistics]]
|work_institution = [[Purdue University]]<br>[[University of the Philippines]]<br>[[United Nations]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Kerala]]<br>[[University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]]
|doctoral_advisor = [[Samarendra Roy]]
|known_for = [[multivariate analysis]]
}}

'''K C Sreedharan Pillai''' (1920–1985) was an [[Demographics of India|Indian]] [[statistician]] who was known for his works on [[multivariate analysis]] and [[probability distributions]].

Pillai studied at the [[University of Travancore]] in [[Trivandrum]]. He graduated in 1941 and obtained his master's degree in 1945. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Kerala in 1945 and worked there for six years until he went to the United States in 1951. After studying for one year at [[Princeton University]], he went to the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina]] where he was awarded a doctorate in statistics in 1954.

His first post was as a statistician with the [[United Nations]], a post he held from 1954 until 1962. One of his achievements at that post was the founding of the Statistical Center of the [[University of the Philippines]]. He was a visiting Professor and Advisor to the University of Philippines for a number of years and supervised graduate students there. In 1962 Pillai was appointed Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at [[Purdue University]]. Pillai's research was in [[statistics]], in particular in multivariate statistical analysis. Pillai was honoured by being elected a Fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]] and a Fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]]. He was an elected member of the [[International Statistical Institute]].

He was a keen golfer too.

He died on 5 June 1985 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

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