 Professor Emeritus of Statistics
Eberly Professor Emeritus
Adjunct Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D., Sc.D.: Cambridge University, 1948, 1965
Summary of research interests
Robust estimation in univariate and multivariate
linear models: Current investigation
includes a new type of estimation called Mu to cover
estimates of parameters in situations where M-estimation is not applicable,
such as Oja’s median.
Characterization of probability distributions: A
general solution of the integrated Cauchy Functional
Equation is obtained.
Matrix Algebra: Theory and applications of antieigen values.
Bootstrap: Bootstrap distributions under resampling schemes
that ensure a certain number of distinct observations in each sample are being
investigated.
Dr. Rao is a Wilks and Mahalanobis medalist; former president of IMS, ISI
and Biometric Society; member/fellow of National Academies of Science of
the United States, United Kingdom,
India and
Lithuania; honorary fellow of ISI, Royal Statistical Society (UK), Biometric
Society, and Institute of Combinatorics and Applications, King’s College,
Cambridge; and elected fellow of IMS, ASA, AAAS and American Academy of
Arts and Science.
Dr. Rao was awarded the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest award
for lifetime achievement in fields of scientific research, in June 2002. His
theoretical work helped lay the foundation of modern statistics. Representative publications
C. R. Rao (chief ed.). Handbook of Statistics, Vols 1-18. New York
and Amsterdam: North Holland/Elsevier Science Publishers.
C. R. Rao. 2000. Statistical proofs of some matrix inequalities. Linear
Algebra and its Applications 321: 307-320.
C. R. Rao. 1998. A note on statistical analysis of shape through triangulation
of landmarks. Proc. National Academy of Sciences 99: 2995-2998.
C. R. Rao and D. N. Shanbhag. 1996. A note on a characteristic property
based on order statistics. Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 124:299-302.
Z. Bai
and C. R. Rao. 1991. Edgeworth expansion of a function of sample means. Annals of Statistics 19:1295-1315. Last updated: May 21, 2003
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