The Mahalanobis distances have been introduced in habitat selection studies for the estimation of environmental suitability maps (ESMs). The pixels of raster maps of a given area correspond to points ...

Google, on Friday, honoured Indian scientist, mathematician and statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis with a colourful doodle on the 125th anniversary of his birth. The doodle reflected what the ...

Google, today celebrated the 125th birth anniversary of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, an Indian scientist and an applied statistician. Born on 29 June 1893 in Culcutta, Bengal, Prasanta Chandra ...

In 2015, Barack Obama appointed D.J. Patil as the US’ first chief data scientist and deputy chief technology officer for data policy. Is it so important to get insights from loads of data for framing ...

In a world riddled with algorithms, more than being humans, we have come to be defined as data points, universally categorised according to our data sets. Much like Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, which ...

This renowned scientist, statistician helped formulate the blueprint for India’s industrialisation. He also founded Indian Statistical Institute and devised the Mahalanobis distance. Born in Calcutta ...

Know all about National Statistics Day: The birth anniversary of PC Mahalanobis is observed as National Statistics Day. Often referred to as the 'father of Indian statistics', PC Mahalanobis, was born ...