Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972) was an Indian scientist and statistician regarded as the founder of statistical science in India. He developed the Mahalanobis distance, a widely used measure of how far a point diverges from a statistical distribution, and pioneered large-scale sample survey methods. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute in 1931 and, as a member of India's first Planning Commission, developed the input-output model behind the country's Second Five-Year Plan, which emphasized rapid industrialization. India has observed 29 June, his birthday, as National Statistics Day since 2007.
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The Mahalanobis model, employed in India's Second Five Year Plan, is explicitly described as a variant of Leontief's Input-Output model. Leontief's own article does not mention Mahalanobis (checked live); sourced from the borrowing economist's own page, same practice as this atlas's existing attributed-to rows.
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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS (29 June 1893 – 28 June 1972) was an Indian scientist and statistician.
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(29 June 1893 - 28 June 1972) was an Indian scientist and statistician.
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(1893-06-29)29 June 1893, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
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28 June 1972(1972-06-28) (aged 78), Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first economic Planning Commission of independent India.
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His variant of Wassily Leontief's Input-output model, the Mahalanobis model, was employed in the Second Five Year Plan, which worked towards the rapid industrialisation of India.
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