A Presentation by Madeleine Holsinger and Najah Mubashira CR Rao “The prophet of a new age” A Presentation by Madeleine Holsinger and Najah Mubashira

Background Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao September 10, 1920 in Huvanna Hadagali C.D. Naidu and Lakshmikantamma 8th child of 6 brothers and 4 sisters Indian God name C.R. Rao’s full name is Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao. He was born on Septmeber 10, 1920 in Huvanna, Hadagali. His parents were C.D. Naidu and Lakshmikantamma. He had 6 brothers and 4 sisters and he was born the eigth child. The indian god, Radhakrishna was also the 8th child so Rao was named after the God.

Education He studied in Degrees at Gudur Nuzvid Nandigama Visakhapatnam Degrees at Andhra University in Waltair, Andhra Pradesh (Mathematics) Calcutta University in Kolkata, West Bengal (Statistics) He studied in places in India such as gudder, nuzzvid, nanDgama, viiisuck-A-putnum He received his degree in mathematics at Andhra University and received his degree in statistics at calcutta university. Both of these universities are in India. Since 1967, he has received 27 honorary doctoral degrees from colleges and universities in 16 countries on 5 different continents, including 7 degrees from India and 4 from the United States.

Occupation Research professor at University of Buffalo University of Pittsburgh Professor Eberly Professor of Statistics Pennsylvania State University Director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis University of Pittsburgh Professor at age 60. Penn State, California Berkley, John Hopkins, Cambridge

Family Married to Bhargavi Children 2 Masters Degrees, 1 Bachelor’s Degree Children Tejaswani Veerendra Rao married Bhargavi. His wife was also well acccomplished like him. She received two masters degree. Her first was from Banaras Hindu University in History and another from the University of Illinois, USA, in Psychology, and a Bachelor’s degree in Teacher’s Training. She taught psychology at Jadavpur University, Kolkata for many years. They had two kids, a daughter Tejaswani.  She has a Ph.D. in Nutrition from the Pennsylvania State University and works as a Professor in the Dietetics and Nutrition department at the SUNY College, Buffalo. Their son is an electrical engineer and computer scientist nad has a computer consultancy.

In Statistics Created many technical terms Most commonly seen Cramer-Rao Bound Rao-Blackwellization His tests led to contributions Technical terms such as, Cramer-Rao inequality, Rao-Blackwellization, Rao’s Score Test, Fisher-Rao and Rao Theorems on second order efficiency of an estimator, Rao’s metric and distance Analysis of Dispersion (MANOVA) and Canonical Variate analysis and G-inverse of matrices His most well known discoveris are the Cramer-Rao bound and the Rao-Blackweillization that is used in estimation. His tests led to contributions in many things such as strategic significance to signal detection.

Awards Won numerous awards in United States, United Kingdom, India Honorary Life Fellow of King’s College in Cambridge, UK Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society National Medal of Science Laureate Padma Vibhushan Award Won many awards for all of his accomplishments towards statistics in society.

Impact in India Served as Director of the ISI (Indian School of Statistics) Jawaharlal Nehru Professor National Professor Founded Indian Econometric Society and Indian Society for Medical Statistics Spread Awareness of Statistics Overall spread the development of statistics in India

Cool Facts Penn State created a Prize in Statistics named after him Created a math/science institute Part of statistical societies Member of 8 national academies the Pennsylvania State University has established C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize in Statistics, CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science President of 5 statistical societies: (1) Indian Econometric Society, (2) International Biometric Society, (3) Institute of Mathematical Statistics, (4) International Statistical Institute, and (5) the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. The road from IIIT Hyderabad crossroads to Alind Factory, Lingampally is named as "Prof. C.R. Rao Road“ One of “The Times of India”’s top 10 scientists 9

Cool Facts US, UK, Italy, and India Has a road named after him One of Times India’s top 10 scientists Studied many subjects He’s lied in and studied in the US, UK, Italy and in India In India, there is a road that crosses form ITT Hyderabad to Alind Factory in Lingamplally named “Prof CR Rao Road” The Time’s of India has named him one of Inida’s top 10 scientists of all time. He’s studied economics, genetics, anthropology, geology, national planning, demography, biometry, and medicine

Where He Is Now Research Professor U of B Continuing research C.R. Rao is currently a research professor at the University of Buffalo continuing to aid students in research.

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