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{{short description|Indian statistician}}
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'''Vidyadhar Prabhakar Godambe''' {{post-nominal|FRSC}} (June 1, 1926 – June 9, 2016) was an Indian statistician. He was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the [[University of Waterloo]]. Godambe was known for formulating and developing a theory of [[estimating equations]].

==Early life and education==
Godambe was born on June 1, 1926, in [[Pune]], [[India]] as the second oldest of four children.<ref name = "Obit">{{cite web |title=OBITUARY:V.P. Godambe, 1926–2016 |url=http://bulletin.imstat.org/2016/09/obituary-v-p-godambe-1926-2016/ |website=bulletin.imstat.org |accessdate=December 2, 2019}}</ref> He was frail and sickly growing up so he attended the local school from age five to 10.<ref name = "x">{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=Mary E. |title=A Conversation with V. P. Godambe |journal=Statistical Science |date=November 2002 |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=458–466 |doi=10.1214/ss/1049993204 |jstor=3182767 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Godambe later attended Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya in Pune and [[Fergusson College]] for his [[Bachelor of Science]] in mathematics.<ref name = "Obit"/>

After earning his Masters degree, Godambe accepted a position in the Bureau of Economics and Statistics with the Government of Bombay. While there, he submitted papers for publication in the [[Journal of the Royal Statistical Society]] and Bulletin of the Bureau of Economics and Statistics, Bombay.<ref name = "x"/> Godambe shortly thereafter left Bombay to pursue a PhD at the [[University of London]], and accepted a fellowship at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. Upon his return, and completion of his thesis, Godambe was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at the [[Indian Statistical Institute]] and Professor and Head of the Statistics Department in Nagpur.<ref name = "Obit"/>

==Career==
Godambe eventually left Nagpur and accepted a position at Bombay University as a Professor for one year. He then moved to North America and worked at the [[Dominion Bureau of Statistics]], alongside [[Ivan Fellegi]], then taught at [[Johns Hopkins University]], [[University of Michigan]], and finally the [[University of Waterloo]].<ref name = "ssc">{{cite web |title=A Conversation with V.P. Godambe |url=https://ssc.ca/en/profile/conversation-vp-godambe |website=ssc.ca |accessdate=December 2, 2019 |date=March 12, 2010}}</ref> Godambe began his career at the University of Waterloo in July 1967 as a visiting professor in Statistics and Actuarial Sciences but was granted tenure as Professor in July 1969.<ref>{{cite web |title=Remembering Vidyadhar Godambe; other notes |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/daily-bulletin/2016-07-05 |website=uwaterloo.ca |accessdate=December 2, 2019 |date=July 5, 2016}}</ref> A few years later, in 1971, Godambe and Mary Thompson read a paper to the [[Royal Statistical Society]] entitled ‘Bayes, fiducial, and frequency aspects of statistical inference in survey sampling.<ref name = "ssc"/>

From there, “Godambe’s paradox” was invented. Based on the paper published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, he demonstrated that the likelihood principle implies that inference should be independent of the sampling design in general, which led to the development of model theory in survey sampling.<ref name = "ssc"/> His method of [[estimating equations]] argued that all statistical inferences should adhere to his "ancillarity principle."<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Christian Genest |author2=Mark J. Schervish |title=Resolution of Godambe's Paradox |journal=The Canadian Journal of Statistics |date=December 1985 |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=293–297 |doi=10.2307/3314949 |jstor=3314949 }}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
In 1987, Godambe was honoured with the [[Statistical Society of Canada]] (SSC) Gold Medal<ref>{{cite web |title=Vidyadhar Prabhakar Godambe, SSC Gold Medalist 1987 |url=https://ssc.ca/en/awards/1987/vidyadhar-prabhakar-godambe-medaille-dor-ssc-1987 |website=ssc.ca |accessdate=December 2, 2019}}</ref> and was later named an honorary member.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vidyadhar Prabhakar Godambe, Honorary Member 2001 |url=https://ssc.ca/en/awards/2001/vidyadhar-prabhakar-godambe-membre-honoraire-ssc-2001 |website=ssc.ca |accessdate=December 2, 2019}}</ref> In 1991, he was appointed a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo.<ref>{{cite web |title=1960 - 1999 |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat/committees-and-councils/honorary-degrees-committee/distinguished-professors-emeriti-granted/1960-1999 |website=uwaterloo.ca |accessdate=December 2, 2019}}</ref> In 2002, Godambe was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Notices of the American Mathematical Society |url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/200211/200211FullIssue.pdf |website=ams.org |accessdate=December 2, 2019 |page=1399 |date=December 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Two named to Royal Society of Canada |url=https://bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2002/jun/28fr.html |website=bulletin.uwaterloo.ca |accessdate=December 2, 2019 |date=June 28, 2002}}</ref>

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