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{{Short description|Indian statistician}}
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'''Lalitha''' ('''Lilly''') '''Padman Sanathanan''' is an Indian statistician.

Sanathanan's early research concerned estimation of population size from sampled data, in the context of [[particle physics]]. She completed her Ph.D. in 1969, at the [[University of Chicago]]; her dissertation, ''Estimating Population Size in the Particle Scanning Context'', was supervised by David Lee Wallace.{{r|mg}} After several years as an assistant and associate professor at the [[University of Illinois Chicago]],{{r|uic}} she moved to [[Argonne National Laboratory]] in the late 1970s.{{r|argonne}}

By 1991 she had shifted career direction, to [[drug development]]. After working as a senior statistician at [[Abbott Laboratories]], associate director of statistics for [[Ciba-Geigy]], and director of research statistics for [[Smith, Kline & French]], she became a director in the [[Center for Drug Evaluation and Research]] of the [[Food and Drug Administration]].{{r|latimes}} She was named a [[Fellow of the American Statistical Association]] in 1990.{{r|fasa}} In 1991 she returned to private industry, as vice president of biostatistics and clinical data systems at the Institute for Biological Research and Development in [[Irvine, California]].{{r|latimes}} She later founded ClinWorld, a binational (US and Indian) clinical research organisation, which was purchased by Indian health corporation Sami Labs (now the Sami-Sabinsa Group) in 2003.{{r|sami}}

In 2008 she published a self-help book, ''Life Vest'', in Bangalore.{{r|vest}} She continues to operate a Florida-based statistics firm, STATLINK, and is a contributor to a cross-cultural [[podcast]], the Global India Podcast.{{r|gip}}

==References==
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<ref name=argonne>{{citation|url=https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/11/531/11531030.pdf|page=332|title=DOE Statistical Symposium, Sandia Laboratories|year=1978}}</ref>

<ref name=fasa>{{citation|url=https://ww2.amstat.org/fellows/|title=ASA Fellows|publisher=American Statistical Association|access-date=2022-08-08}}</ref>

<ref name=gip>{{citation|url=http://globalindiapodcast.com/|title=Global India Podcast|access-date=2022-08-08|archive-date=2022-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308173626/http://globalindiapodcast.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

<ref name=latimes>{{citation|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-26-fi-1301-story.html|title=Lilly P. Sanathanan has joined the Institute...|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=June 26, 1991|access-date=2022-08-08}}</ref>

<ref name=mg>{{mathgenealogy|id=35295}}</ref>

<ref name=sami>{{citation|url=https://drmajeed.com/pdf/press/et050803.htm|title=Sami Labs buys CRO ClinWorld|newspaper=The Economic Times|date=August 5, 2003|first=Anil|last=Urs|access-date=2022-08-08}}</ref>

<ref name=uic>Affiliation as listed on her publications "Estimating the Size of a Multinomial Population" (1972, {{doi|10.1214/aoms/1177692709}}) and "Estimating the Size of a Truncated Sample" (1977, {{doi|10.2307/2286238}})</ref>

<ref name=vest>{{citation|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2008/dec/02/striking-the-perfect-balance-7526.html|title=Striking the perfect balance|newspaper=The New Indian Express|date=December 2, 2008|access-date=2022-08-08}}</ref>

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