The Mahalanobis-Taguchi System (MTS) has evolved into a robust tool for multivariate data classification and optimisation, merging statistical distance measures with the design philosophy of robust ...

Outlier detection is an integral component of statistical modelling and estimation. For highdimensional data, classical methods based on the Mahalanobis distance are usually not applicable. We propose ...

India celebrates National Statistics Day on the birth anniversary Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the legendary Indian scientist and statistician. Popularly known as PC Mahalanobis, he is best known for ...

Professor P.C. Mahalanobis, who introduced statistics to India, is a scientist whose absence is felt dearly even today. Mahalanobis’s lifelong courtship with statistics, his unwavering and fearless ...

Every year June 29 is observed as National Statistics Day in our country to create public awareness about the importance of statistics in socio-economic planning and policy formulation. Prasanta ...

PC Mahalanobis was also instrumental in formulating India’s second five-year-plan (1956-1961), which laid the blueprint for industrialisation and development in India. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, ...

He founded Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata on 17th December, 1931. The institute gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959.