Jayanta Kumar Ghosh


Jayanta Kumar Ghosh or Jaẏanta Kumāra Ghosha 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 and the Ghosh–Pratt identity along with John W. Pratt.
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