Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka
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Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka, also known as J.S. Rao, is a statistician specializing in directional statistics, Goodness of fit tests, Spacings, and aspects of large sample efficiencies and inference. He was born in Munipalle, Andhra Pradesh, India, and currently is a naturalized US citizen. He now resides and works at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Distinguished Professor in Statistics.[1] He is known for his important contributions to circular statistics and to tests and estimation based on spacings.
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Born | J. S. Rao (1944-12-07) 7 December 1944 (age 79) Munipalle, Andhra Pradesh, India |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Known for | Directional statistics, goodness of fit tests, spacings, large sample theory |
Awards | Honorary Doctorate, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, University of California, Santa Barbara C.R.Rao Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata |
Doctoral advisor | C. R. Rao |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Statistics, Probability |
Doctoral students | Siddhartha Chib |
Website | http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/jammalam/ |
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