Damaraju Raghavarao (1938–2013) was an Indian-born statistician, formerly the Laura H. Carnell professor of statistics and chair of the department of statistics at

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. Raghavarao is an elected fellow of the

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, and an elected member of The International Statistical Institute. He has been specialized in combinatorics and applications of experimental designs. Raghavarao received his M.A. in mathematics from Nagpur University, India in 1957 and earned the gold medal. He earned his Ph.D. in statistics from the

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in 1961 for his work in designs of experiments; his Ph.D. advisor was M. C. Chakrabarti. Raghavarao was a professor of statistics at

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, and

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before joining Temple University. He died on February 6, 2013.

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Webpage at Temple university

Brief Resume of Damaraju Raghavarao
Indian statisticians American statisticians Fellows of the American Statistical Association 1938 births 2013 deaths Indian combinatorialists University of Mumbai alumni Temple University faculty Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Scientists from Andhra Pradesh 20th-century Indian mathematicians {{India-academic-bio-stub