Arjun Kumar Gupta (1938 – 25 December 2022) was a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at

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. Gupta was born in

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, India in 1938. Gupta received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Poona University in India and his PhD from

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. He was a member of the

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, and the

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of England. In 1989 he was elected as a

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, accessed 19 November 2016. He received the Olscamp Research Award in 1990. He has written more than 400 articles and he has edited, co-edited or co-authored six books on statistics. In 2022, Gupta's memoir ''A Multidimensional Life: The Legacy of Arjun K. Gupta'' was published. Gupta died on 25 December 2022.

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