Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, 23 May 1937 – 30 September 2017) 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 (with R. R. Bahadur and Jack Kiefer) and the Ghosh–Pratt identity along with John W. Pratt.

His research contributions fall within the fields of:

• Bayesian inference

• Asymptotics

• Modeling and model selection

• High dimensional data analysis

• Nonparametric regression and density estimation

• Survival analysis

• Statistical genetics

Awards and honors

• Elected member of the International Statistical Institute

• Advisory editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

• Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy

• Life member and director of the Calcutta Statistical Association

• Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences

• Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 1978

• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 1981

• President, Statistics Section of the Indian Science Congress Association, 1991

• President, International Statistical Institute, 1993

• Mahalanobis Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress Association, 1998

• Invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998

• P. V. Sukhatme Prize for Statistics, 2000

• Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, State Science and Technology Congress, W. Bengal, 2003

• D.Sc. (h.c.), B.C. Roy Agricultural University, W. Bengal, India, 2006

• International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010

• Padma Shree (2014) by the Government of India

Bibliography

He has published over 50 research papers. He has also published four books, which are:

• Invariance in Testing and Estimation (Lecture Notes), 1967, published by Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.

• Higher Order Asymptotics (based on CBMS-NSF lecture), published jointly by Institute of Mathematical Statistics and American Statistical Association, 1994.

• (with R.V. Ramamoorthi) Bayesian Nonparametrics (Springer 2003).

• (with Mohan Delampady and Tapas Samanta) An Introduction to Bayesian Analysis - Theory and Methods, Springer 2006.

References

External links

• Indian Statistical Institute Statistics Department homepage

• Dr. Ghosh's profile at Purdue University

• Dr. Ghosh's webpage at the Statistics Department of Purdue University

• A biography of Dr. Ghosh written by Professor Anirban Dasgupta