Kanti Mardia Explained

Kanti V. Mardia
Birth Date:1935 4, df=yes
Field:Statistics
Work Institutions:University of Leeds
Education:PhD (1965) from University of Rajasthan, PhD (1967) and DSc (1973) from University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Alma Mater:Ismail Yusuf College, University of Bombay, University of Poona, University of Rajasthan, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Known For:Bivariate von Mises distribution
Multivariate Pareto distribution
Mardia test
Prizes:Guy Medal (Silver, 2003)
Wilks Memorial Award (2013)

Kantilal Vardichand "Kanti" Mardia (born 1935) is an Indian-British statistician specialising in directional statistics, multivariate analysis, geostatistics, statistical bioinformatics and statistical shape analysis.[1] [2] He was born in Sirohi, Rajasthan, India in a Jain family and now resides and works in Leeds.[3] He is known for his series of tests of multivariate normality based measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis[4] [5] [6] as well as work on the statistical measures of shape.[7]

Life and career

Mardia was educated at the Ismail Yusuf College at the University of Bombay (BSc 1955, MSc in statistics 1957), the University of Poona (MSc in pure mathematics 1961), the University of Rajasthan (PhD 1965) and the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (PhD 1967, DSc 1973).[8] He held academic positions at the Institute of Science, Mumbai and the University of Hull.

Mardia was appointed professor of applied statistics and head of the Department of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds in 1973. He retired in 2000 with the title emeritus professor and is currently senior research professor of applied statistics at Leeds, where he has held the Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship since 2017.[9] [10] He has been a long-term visiting professor at the University of Oxford since 2013, and was adjunct faculty with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad from 2012 to 2014.

He helped establish both the Centre of Medical Imaging Research (CoMIR) and the Centre of Statistical Bioinformatics (CoSB) at Leeds, and was initially the director of CoMIR. He has written several books and edited conference proceedings.

In 1973, Mardia founded the University of Leeds Annual Statistics Research Workshops, designed to promote interdisciplinary research. These workshops attract an international audience and focus on applied statistical topics.[11]

Mardia has received a number of honours, including a 2003 Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society, which noted "his many path breaking contributions to statistical science ... and his lasting leadership role in interdisciplinary research";[12] [13] the 2013 Wilks Memorial Award from the American Statistical Association, which noted his "seminal results in shape analysis, spatial statistics, multivariate analysis, directional data analysis, and bioinformatics";[14] [15] the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Indian Statistical Association;[16] [17] the 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Medal of Honour from the NRI Institute;[18] and the 2021 OneJAIN Life Achievement Award from the Jain All-Party Parliamentary Group.[19] He is the founding Vice-President of International Indian Statistical Association, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Royal Statistical Society.[20] [21] [22] The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's 2020 Virtual Symposium on Directional Statistics was dedicated to Mardia.[23] He gave the 40th Fisher Memorial Lecture on 18 November 2022 at the Oxford Mathematical Institute.[24] A festschrift honoring his work resulted in an edited volume, Geometry Driven Statistics.

He is a practicing Jain and strict vegetarian. His 1990 book The Scientific Foundations of Jainism introduced the Four Noble Truths of Jains.[25] [26] [27] He founded the Yorkshire Jain Foundation.[28]

Mardia was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to statistical science.[29]

Books

Mardia Prize

The Mardia Prize, awarded by the Royal Statistical Society, was founded by Mardia in 2015 to foster collaboration between statisticians and scientists via "workshops in emerging interdisciplinary areas".[30] [31] The first award was given in 2016[32] (Topic: renewable natural resources management, food security, climate change and the illegal wildlife trade) with the second in 2018[33] (Topic: extreme weather research) and the third in 2019[34] (Topic: economics of mental health).

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Geometry Driven Statistics . Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics . John Wiley & Sons . 2015 . 9781118866573 . Dryden . Ian L. and John T. Kent . en . 10.1002/9781118866641.
  2. Web site: 2014-02-04 . 'Statistics provides a challenge somewhat akin to Sherlock Holmes' task: how to find hidden truth in any data, from small to big.' An interview with Samuel S. Wilks Award winner Kanti Mardia . 2024-10-07 . Stats & Data Science Views . en-GB.
  3. Mukhopadhyay . Nitis . May 2002 . A Conversation with Kanti Mardia . . 17 . 1 . 113–148, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3182813 . 10.1214/ss/1023799001 . 0883-4237 . Project Euclid.
  4. L. Baringhaus and N. Henze (1992) Limit Distributions for Mardia's Measure of Multivariate Skewness. The Annals of Statistics 20(4):1889–1902
  5. Cain . Meghan K. . Zhang . Zhiyong . Yuan . Ke-Hai . 2017-10-01 . Univariate and multivariate skewness and kurtosis for measuring nonnormality: Prevalence, influence and estimation . Behavior Research Methods . en . 49 . 5 . 1716–1735 . 10.3758/s13428-016-0814-1 . 1554-3528.
  6. Mardia, K. V. (1970). Measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis. Biometrika 57:519–530
  7. The statistical analysis of shape data. Mardia KV and IL Dryden . 1989. Biometrika. 76. 2. 271–281. 10.1093/biomet/76.2.271.
  8. Web site: 2009-05-11 . University of Leeds, Kanti Mardia - Education . 2024-10-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090511122804/http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/education.html . 11 May 2009 .
  9. Web site: University of Leeds, List of Emeritus Professors. https://web.archive.org/web/20120926134723/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/calendar/emeritus.htm. dead. 26 September 2012.
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20231210082206/http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/ University of Leeds, Staff Profile
  11. Web site: Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop (LASR) 2024 LASR2024 . 2024-10-05 . conferences.leeds.ac.uk.
  12. Web site: 2009 . Statistics in a Changing Society - 175 Years of Progress . 2024-10-05 . Royal Statistical Society.
  13. Web site: Guy Medal in Silver . . 22 January 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080118235720/http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=2478 . 18 January 2008 . dead .
  14. 2013 . Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award . Amstat News . 436 . 21.
  15. Web site: Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award . https://web.archive.org/web/20220212011855/https://www.amstat.org/your-career/awards/samuel-s-wilks-memorial-award . 2022-02-12 . 30 September 2024 . American Statistical Association.
  16. 2019 . Lifetime Achievement Award . IISA Fall 2019 Newsletter.
  17. Web site: Lifetime Achievement Award . https://web.archive.org/web/20220112191710/https://www.intindstat.org/recipients . 2022-01-12 . 2024-10-01 . International Indian Statistical Association.
  18. Web site: Mahatma Gandhi Medal of Honour . https://web.archive.org/web/20231103145713/https://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/honours.html . 2023-11-03 . 23 December 2022 . University of Leeds, Kanti Mardia - Honours.
  19. Web site: OneJAIN Life Achievement Award . University of Leeds, Staff Profile . 23 December 2022 .
  20. Web site: Kanti Mardia in UK Honours List . 2024-10-01 . . en.
  21. Web site: American Statistical Association Fellows . 2024-10-01 . American Statistical Association.
  22. Web site: Mardia Prize . 2024-10-01 . Royal Statistical Society.
  23. Web site: 2021-03-23 . 2020 Virtual Symposium on Directional Statistics . 2024-10-07 . Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . en.
  24. Web site: Fisher Memorial Lecture . https://web.archive.org/web/20221224035920/http://www.senns.uk/FisherWeb.html#FL40 . 2022-12-24 . 23 December 2022 . Fisher Memorial Trust.
  25. Web site: Jain eLibrary: The Scientific Foundations of Jainism . 2024-10-14 . Use "Mardia" in the search bar..
  26. Mardia, Kanti. "Modern Science and the Four Noble Truths of Jains." Young Jains International Newsletter, vol. 22, no. 1, 2008. London, UK, http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/FourNobleTruths-2.pdf
  27. Web site: Mardia . Kanti V. . Jainism in scientific terms . https://web.archive.org/web/20211018023048/http://www.jainpedia.org/themes/principles/jain-beliefs/jainism-in-scientific-terms.html#c3386 . 18 October 2021 . JAINpedia.
  28. Web site: Yorkshire Jain Foundation . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111003143611/http://www.yjf.org.uk/index.htm . 3 October 2011 . 2024-10-14.
  29. Web site: Mukherjee . Arundhati . 2023-01-16 . British Indian statistician conferred prestigious UK honour . 2024-10-01 . iGlobal News . en.
  30. Web site: RSS fellow to support cutting edge interdisciplinary workshops | StatsLife . 19 August 2019 . 19 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190819115928/https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3304-rss-fellow-to-support-cutting-edge-interdisciplinary-workshops . dead .
  31. Web site: Mardia Prize . 2024-10-01 . Royal Society of Statistics.
  32. https://web.archive.org/web/20170817144612/http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/MardiaPrize.html, archived from the original http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/MardiaPrize.html on 17 August 2017
  33. Web site: 2018 Mardia Prize to support extreme weather research StatsLife. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190819115929/https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3844-2018-mardia-prize-to-support-extreme-weather-research . 19 August 2019 .
  34. Web site: 2019 Mardia Prize to support workshops on economics of mental health | StatsLife . 19 August 2019 . 19 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190819115926/https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/4214-2019-mardia-prize-to-support-workshops-on-economics-of-mental-health . dead .

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