Professor P.C. Mahalanobis, who introduced statistics to India, is a scientist whose absence is felt dearly even today. Mahalanobis’s lifelong courtship with statistics, his unwavering and ...

But that is not how it always has been Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis foresaw decades ahead, beyond these numbers, and influenced the ways of the world by converting us, data sets into able tools of ...

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the famous Indian scientist, has been remembered in the Google Doodle for June 29, 2018. Inventor of the Mahalanobis distance, he also conducted research in ...

Every year June 29 is observed as National Statistics Day in our country to create public awareness about the importance of statistics in socio-economic planning and policy formulation. Prasanta ...

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, India’s ‘Plan Man’ and the architect of the country’s statistical system, conducted a large-scale sample survey of Bengal’s famine-ravaged villages between ...

The story behind the National Sample Survey goes back to 1913, when a brilliant young man called Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis arrived at King’s College, Cambridge, to study mathematics.

India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (left) with scientist and statistician PC Mahalanobis Indian data is staring at a credibility crisis with official numbers on a range of subjects ...