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(Jayanta Kumar Ghosh is a Bengali name. However the page attempts to provide an alternative Sanskrit driven pronunciation “Jayanta Kumara Ghosha” which is quite inaccurate. Because Dr Ghosh was a Bengali and thus his name was Bengali too, not Sanskrit.) |
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|caption = Jayanta Kumar Ghosh | |caption = Jayanta Kumar Ghosh | ||
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1937|5|23|}} | |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1937|5|23|}} | ||
|birth_place = [[India]] | |birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[India]] | ||
|residence = | |residence = | ||
|nationality = [[File:Flag of India.svg|20px]] [[India]]n | |nationality = [[File:Flag of India.svg|20px]] [[India]]n | ||
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2017|09|30|1937|5|23}} | |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2017|09|30|1937|5|23}} | ||
|death_place = | |death_place = US | ||
|field = [[Statistician]] | |field = [[Statistician]] | ||
|work_institution = [[Indian Statistical Institute]]<br> [[Purdue University]] | |work_institution = [[Indian Statistical Institute]]<br> [[Purdue University]] | ||
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'''Jayanta Kumar Ghosh''' (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, | '''Jayanta Kumar Ghosh''' (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, 23 May 1937 – 30 September 2017) was an Indian [[statistician]], an [[emeritus professor]] at [[Indian Statistical Institute]] and a professor of statistics at [[Purdue University]].<ref name="IMS">{{Cite web |url=http://bulletin.imstat.org/2017/11/obituary-jayanta-kumar-ghosh-1937-2017/ |title=Obituary: Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, 1937–2017 |last=Dasgupta |first=Anirban |date=16 November 2017 |website=IMS Bulletin |language=en-US |access-date=2018-02-21}}</ref> | ||
==Education== | ==Education== | ||
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==Research== | ==Research== | ||
Among his best-known discoveries are the [[Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation]] (with [[R. R. Bahadur]] and [[Jack Kiefer (statistician)|Jack Kiefer]])<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lahiri|first=S. N|title=On the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation of sample quantiles|journal=Statistics & Probability Letters|year=1992|volume=15|issue=2|pages=163–168|doi=10.1016/0167-7152(92)90130-w}}</ref> and the [[Ghosh–Pratt identity]] along with [[John W. Pratt]].<ref>{{cite | Among his best-known discoveries are the [[Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation]] (with [[R. R. Bahadur]] and [[Jack Kiefer (statistician)|Jack Kiefer]])<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lahiri|first=S. N|title=On the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation of sample quantiles|journal=Statistics & Probability Letters|year=1992|volume=15|issue=2|pages=163–168|doi=10.1016/0167-7152(92)90130-w}}</ref> and the [[Ghosh–Pratt identity]] along with [[John W. Pratt]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Casella |first=George |author-link=George Casella |title=The Ghosh–Pratt Identity |journal=Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online |year=1996 |doi=10.1002/9781118445112.stat01501 |isbn=9781118445112 }}</ref> | ||
His research contributions fall within the fields of: | His research contributions fall within the fields of: | ||
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* [[Statistical genetics]] | * [[Statistical genetics]] | ||
==Awards | ==Awards and honors== | ||
* Elected | * Elected member of the International Statistical Institute | ||
* Advisory | * Advisory editor, ''Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference'' | ||
* Fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]] | * Fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]] | ||
* Fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] | * Fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] | ||
* Life | * Life member and director of the Calcutta Statistical Association | ||
* Fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] | * Fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] | ||
* Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 1978 | * Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 1978 | ||
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* President, [[International Statistical Institute]], 1993 | * President, [[International Statistical Institute]], 1993 | ||
* Mahalanobis Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress Association, 1998 | * Mahalanobis Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress Association, 1998 | ||
* Invited | * Invited speaker of the [[International Congress of Mathematicians]], 1998<ref>{{cite book|author=Ghosh, Jayanta K.|chapter=Bayesian density estimation|title=Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III|year=1998|pages=237–243|chapter-url=https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011581000}}</ref> | ||
* [[Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme|P. V. Sukhatme]] Prize for Statistics, 2000 | * [[Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme|P. V. Sukhatme]] Prize for Statistics, 2000 | ||
* Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, State Science and Technology Congress, W. Bengal, 2003 | * Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, State Science and Technology Congress, W. Bengal, 2003 | ||