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Anil Kumar Bhattacharyya

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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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Birth Year
1915 1
Death Date
1996-07-17 1
Death Year
1996 1
Nationality
British Raj 1
Nationality
Dominion of India 1
Nationality
India 1
Birthplace
Bhatpara, India 1
Field
Field (category)
Mathematics 1
Field (category)
Statistics 1
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1. Anil Kumar Bhattacharyya (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +1996-07-17T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +1996-07-17T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): India
    Q668
  • P19 (place of birth): Bhatpara, India
    Q854914
  • P27 (country of citizenship): British Raj
    Q129286
  • P27 (country of citizenship): Dominion of India
    Q1775277
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Anil Kumar Bhattacharyya (Wikipedia)
  • Works In: Statistics, Lead sentence
    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.
  • Member Of: University of Calcutta, Infobox: workplaces
    University of Calcutta, Indian Statistical Institute
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