Background
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born on September 10, 1920 in Karnataka, India. He was the eighth of the ten children.
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Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born on September 10, 1920 in Karnataka, India. He was the eighth of the ten children.
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao received an Master of Science in mathematics from Andhra University and an Master of Arts in statistics from Calcutta University in 1943. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy at King's College in Cambridge University under R.A. Fisher in 1948, to which he added a Doctor of Science, also from Cambridge, in 1965.
Radhakrishna Rao first worked at the Indian Statistical Institute and the Anthropological Museum in Cambridge. Later he held several important positions, as the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, Jawaharlal Nehru Professor and National Professor in India, University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Eberly Professor and Chair of Statistics and Director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis at Pennsylvania State University.
As Head and later Director of the Research and Training School at the Indian Statistical Institute for a period of over 40 years, Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao developed research and training programs and produced several leaders in the field of Mathematics. On the basis of Rao's recommendation, the ASI (The Asian Statistical Institute) now known as Statistical Institute for Asia and Pacific was established in Tokyo to provide training to statisticians working in government and industrial organisations.
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao has received 38 honorary doctoral degrees from universities in 19 countries around the world and numerous awards and medals for his contributions to statistics and science.
Among his best-known discoveries are the Cramér - Rao bound and the Rao - Blackwell theorem both related to the quality of estimators. Other areas he worked in include multivariate analysis, estimation theory, and differential geometry. His other contributions include the Fisher–Rao theorem, Rao distance, and orthogonal arrays. He is the author of 14 books and has published over 400 journal publications.
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