A Tribute to the Legend of Professor C. R. Rao

A Message from C. R. Rao.- CV of C.R. Rao with Photos.- C. Radhakrishna Rao: Information and the Accuracy Attainable in the Estimation of Statistical Parameters.- Bibek Deb Roy: A Few Thoughts on India's Statistical System.- Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay: A Tribute to Prof. C. R. Rao.- S. R. Varadhan: The Polaron Problem.- B. L. S. Prakasa rao: C. R. Rao: A Life in Statistics.- Somnath Panja and Bimal Roy: A Secure End-To-End Verifiable E-voting System Using Zero Knowledge Based Blockchain.- Anil Bera and Priyasmita Ghosh: Glimpses from the Life and Work of Dr. C.R. Rao: A Living Legend in Statistics.- J. N. K. Rao: My Memorable Interactions with Professor C. R. Rao.- Malay Ghosh: Small Area Estimation: An Early History.- Palash Sarkar: Aspects of Inductive Inference in Statistics and Machine Learning.- Amartya Kumar Dutta: "To the seers, our ancestors".- S. P. Mukherjee: A Tiny Tribute to a Towering Statistician.- Arijit Chaudhuri: A Tribute to Professor C. R. Rao.- Dipti Prasad Mukherjee: His Experiments with Truth.- Tasos C. Christofides: C. R. Rao.- Nibedita Ganguly: Professor C. R. Rao: Homage to the Towering Personality of Indian Statistical Institute.- More Colour Pictures.

ARIJIT CHAUDHURI is Honorary Visiting Professor at the Applied Statistics Unit (ASU) at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India, since 1st September 2005. Professor Chaudhuri holds a Ph.D. in Statistics in the area of sample surveys from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, from where he also graduated. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher for two years at the University of Sydney (1973-1975), Australia. He retired as a professor from the ISI, Kolkata, India, on 31st August 2002, where he then continued to work as CSIR Emeritus Scientist for three years up to 31st August 2005. His areas of research include mean square error estimation in multi-stage sampling, analytical study of complex surveys, randomized response surveys, and small area estimation. In the year 2000, he was elected as President of the Section of Statistics for the Indian Science Congress and worked for the Government of West Bengal for 12 years as Committee Chairman for the improvement of crop statistics. He has also worked with the Government of India to apply sophisticated methods of small area estimation in improving state and union territory level estimates of various parameters of national importance. He has worked on various global assignments upon invitation, including visiting professorships at universities/statistical offices in the USA, Canada, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, Cuba, and South Africa, from 1979 to 2009. He has successfully mentored 10 Ph.D. students and published more than 150 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, a few of them jointly with his students and colleagues. He is the author of 11 books on survey sampling.

SAT N. GUPTA is Professor of Statistics and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Colorado State University, USA (1983), and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Delhi