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.