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3 unusual facts about Indian Statistical Institute


Debraj Ray

Ray has held long-term positions at Stanford University, the Indian Statistical Institute, and at Boston University, where he was Director of the Institute for Economic Development.

Plackett–Burman design

For the case of more than two levels, Plackett and Burman rediscovered designs that had previously been given by Raj Chandra Bose and K. Kishen at the Indian Statistical Institute.

S. B. Rao

Siddani Bhaskara Rao a Graph theorist was a professor and director of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta


Jean Drèze

He studied Mathematical Economics at the University of Essex in the 1980s and did his PhD (theoretical economics of cost-benefit analysis) at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.

Moni Nag

Starting his career in the Indian Statistical Institute, he worked for a few years in Anthropological Survey of India and joined the Department of Anthropology at Columbia university in 1966.

Satish K. Tripathi

In Calcutta, after graduating from Banaras Hindu University, Tripathi gained experience in working with computers at the Indian Statistical Institute.


see also

Orthogonal array

Orthogonal arrays played a central role in the development of Taguchi methods by Genichi Taguchi, which took place during his visit to Indian Statistical Institute in early 1950s.