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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

1893–1972 · Statistics

Founder of the Indian Statistical Institute and a pioneer of large-scale sample surveys. He introduced the Mahalanobis distance, a measure of the distance between a point and a distribution that is widely used today in classification, clustering and machine learning.

Source: Britannica — P. C. Mahalanobis

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