Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
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label: プラサンタ・チャンドラ・マハラノビス @ja
label: Махаланобис, Прасанта Чандра @ru
doctoral students: Samarendra Nath Roy
doctoral advisor: William Herrick Macaulay
subject: Category:Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in literature & education
subject: Category:Bengali Hindus
subject: Category:University of Calcutta alumni
subject: Category:Presidency University, Kolkata alumni
subject: Category:Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
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subject: Category:Bengali scientists
subject: Category:Scientists from Kolkata
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subject: Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
subject: Category:Indian institute directors
subject: Category:Fellows of the Econometric Society
subject: Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
subject: Category:Founders of Indian schools and colleges
subject: Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association
subject: Category:Mathematical statisticians
subject: Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
subject: Category:Members of the Planning Commission of India
subject: Category:Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
subject: Category:People from Bikrampur
subject: Category:20th-century Indian economists
subject: Category:1893 births
subject: Category:Indian statisticians
subject: Category:Indian development economists
subject: Category:People associated with Santiniketan
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subject: Category:Principals of Presidency University, Kolkata
subject: Category:1972 deaths
subject: Category:20th-century Indian mathematicians
known for: Mahalanobis distance
known for: Feldman–Mahalanobis model
signature: Signature of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.svg
spouse: Nirmal Kumari Mahalanobis
awards: Fellow of the Royal Society
awards: Padma Vibhushan
awards: Weldon Memorial Prize
awards: Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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alma mater: Presidency University, Kolkata
alma mater: King's College, Cambridge
doctoral student: Samarendra Nath Roy
notable student: C. R. Rao
notable student: Raj Chandra Bose
birth place: Presidencies and provinces of British India
birth place: Bengal Presidency
birth place: Kolkata
death place: India
death place: West Bengal
birth date: 1893-06-29
death date: 1972-06-28
death place: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
institution: Indian Statistical Institute
institution: University of Cambridge
workplaces: Indian Statistical Institute
workplaces: University of Cambridge