Anil Kumar Bhattacharyya was an Indian statistician at the Indian Statistical Institute who developed the Bhattacharyya coefficient and the associated Bhattacharyya distance, a measure of the similarity between two probability distributions that has since become a standard tool applied across statistics, genetics, signal processing and computer science.
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He made fundamental contributions to multivariate statistics, particularly for his measure of similarity between two multinomial distributions, known as the Bhattacharyya coefficient, based on which he defined a metric, the Bhattacharyya distance.
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Anil Kumar Bhattacharyya (1 April 1915-17 July 1996) was an Indian statistician who worked at the Indian Statistical Institute in the 1930s and early 40s.
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University of Calcutta, Indian Statistical Institute
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