Mathematics & Computer Science
Mahalanobis distance and large-scale surveys
1936 CEPrasanta Chandra MahalanobisMahalanobis's statistics papersPan-Indian / unspecified
1936
A multivariate distance measure accounting for correlations, plus pioneering large-scale sample-survey methods.
- Dated
- 1936
- As scholars put it
- 1936 CE
- Originator
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
- Source text
- Mahalanobis's statistics papers
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Mathematics & Computer Science
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Widely adopted in Western statistics and machine learning.
Fair to say
A genuinely Indian-developed and internationally adopted tool.
Path to modern innovation
The Mahalanobis distance is standard in statistics, ML and anomaly detection.
1936Mahalanobis distance and large-scale surveys
1960Transmission
Developed in India; founded the Indian Statistical Institute (1931).
References
- 1P. C. Mahalanobis (1936)
- 2ISI histories
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