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J. K. Ghosh's contribution to statistics: A brief outline

Statistics Theory 2008-12-18 v1 Methodology Statistics Theory

Abstract

Professor Jayanta Kumar Ghosh has contributed massively to various areas of Statistics over the last five decades. Here, we survey some of his most important contributions. In roughly chronological order, we discuss his major results in the areas of sequential analysis, foundations, asymptotics, and Bayesian inference. It is seen that he progressed from thinking about data points, to thinking about data summarization, to the limiting cases of data summarization in as they relate to parameter estimation, and then to more general aspects of modeling including prior and model selection.

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@article{arxiv.0805.3066,
  title  = {J. K. Ghosh's contribution to statistics: A brief outline},
  author = {Bertrand Clarke and Subhashis Ghosal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.3066},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/074921708000000011 the IMS Collections (http://www.imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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