"The spirit and outlook of 'Sankhya' will be universal, but its form and content must necessarily be, to some extent, regional. We shall keep the special needs of India in view without, however, restricting the scope of the journal in any way. We shall naturally devote closer attention to the collection and analysis of data relating to India, but we shall try to study all Indian questions in relation to world problems.... The study of modern statistical methods in its infancy in our country, and we do not expect to be able to achieve immediate results. We shall be satisfied if we can help by our humble efforts to lay the foundations for future work."
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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (Bengali: āĻĒā§āĻ°āĻļāĻžāĻ¨ā§āĻ¤ āĻāĻ¨ā§āĻĻā§āĻ° āĻŽāĻšāĻ˛āĻžāĻ¨āĻŦāĻŋāĻ¸) (June 29, 1893 â June 28, 1972) was a renowned Indian scientist and applied statistician. He was popularly address as P.C.Mahalanobis. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. He made pioneering studies in anthropometry in India. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute, and contributed to the design of large-scale sample surveys for which he designed the method known as fractile graphical analy
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