Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian economist and statistician (died 1972)

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Indian scientist and statistician (1893-1972)

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS was an Indian scientist and statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first Planning Commission of free India. He made pioneering studies in…