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Jayanta Kumar Ghosh or Jaẏanta Kumāra Ghosha (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, born 23 May 1937, died 30 September 2017) was an Indian statistician, an emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University.
Education
He obtained a B.S. from Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta under the supervision of H. K. Nandi. He started his research career in the early 1960s, studying sequential analysis as a graduate student in the department of statistics at the University of Calcutta.
Research
Among his best-known discoveries are the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation (with R. R. Bahadur and Jack Kiefer) and the Ghosh–Pratt identity along with John W. Pratt.
His research contributions fall within the fields of:
- Bayesian inference
- Asymptotics
- Modeling and model selection
- High dimensional data analysis
- Nonparametric regression and density estimation
- Survival analysis
- Statistical genetics
Awards/Honors
- Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
- Advisory Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
- Life Member and Director of the Calcutta Statistical Association
- Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
- Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 1978
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 1981
- President, Statistics Section of the Indian Science Congress Association, 1991
- President, International Statistical Institute, 1993
- Mahalanobis Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress Association, 1998
- Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998
- P. V. Sukhatme Prize for Statistics, 2000
- Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, State Science and Technology Congress, W. Bengal, 2003
- D.Sc. (h.c.), B.C. Roy Agricultural University, W. Bengal, India, 2006
- International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010
- Padma Shree (2014) by the Government of India