| Citation | Distinguished for contributions to statistical theory and biometric method; he devised the criterion of second order efficiency, based on Fisher's theory, and established important optimal properties of maximum likelihood estimation; his concept of othogonal arrays of strength d, combinatorial arrangements of importance in experimental design, was an essential component in the recent disproof of Euler's conjecture about Graeco-Latin squares. Distinguished also as the principal of several major statistical theorems.
Author of Advanced Statistical Methods in Biometric Research, and of many notable publications on multivariate analysis and on the statistical treatment of anthropometric and psychological data.
Professor of Theoretical Statistics, and Head of the Research and Training School of the Indian Statistical Institute, which he has made international both in its work and in its high reputation. |