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P. C. Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute in 1931 and designed large-scale sample surveys. He was a key architect of India's Second Five-Year Plan. His birthday, 29 June, is National Statistics Day.
Key contributions
- Mahalanobis distance (1936), widely used in data science and machine learning
- Founded the Indian Statistical Institute (1931) and the National Sample Survey
- Shaped economic planning in the Second Five-Year Plan