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'''Radha Govind Laha''' (1 October 1930 – 14 July 1999) was an Indian probabilist, statistician, and mathematician, known for his work in probability theory,<ref name=LR79>{{Cite book|author=R. G. Laha and V. K. Rohatgi|year=1979|pages=557|title=Probability Theory|publisher=Wiley|location=New York.}}</ref> characteristic functions,<ref name=LL1>{{Cite book |author=E. Lukacs and R. G. Laha|title=Applications of Characteristic Functions (Griffin's Statistical Monographs & Courses, No. 14)|location=New York|publisher=T. Hafner Pub. Co.|year=1964 |pages=202}}</ref> and characterisation of distributions.<ref name=LLN60>Laha, Lukacs, and Newman (1960)</ref><ref name=Laha>Laha (1957,1958a,1958b,1959,1991,1998)</ref><ref name=LL2>Laha and Lukacs (1960,1962,1977)</ref>   

   

He was born in Calcutta, India and he was a student of [[C. R. Rao]]<ref name=MathG>{{MathGenealogy|id=48987}}</ref> at [[Calcutta University]], where in 1957 he earned a doctorate in analytical probability theory from the [[Indian Statistical Institute]]. His dissertation was entitled ''Some Characterization Problems in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics''.