Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka | |
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| Born | J. S. Rao 7 December 1944 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Known for | Directional statistics, goodness of fit tests, spacings, large sample theory |
| Awards | Honorary Doctorate, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, University of California, Santa Barbara C.R.Rao Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata |
| Doctoral advisor | C. R. Rao |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Statistics, Probability |
| Doctoral students | Siddhartha Chib |
| Website | http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/jammalam/ |
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka, also known as J.S. Rao, is a statistician specializing in directional statistics, Goodness of fit tests, Spacings, and aspects of large sample efficiencies and inference. He was born in Munipalle, Andhra Pradesh, India, and currently is a naturalized US citizen. He now resides and works at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Distinguished Professor in Statistics. He is known for his important contributions to circular statistics and to tests and estimation based on spacings.