Jagdish Narain Srivastava (1933-2010) was an

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. Srivastava is known for the research in the area of

Design of experiments The design of experiments (DOE), also known as experiment design or experimental design, is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. ...

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and

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. Srivastava was a Fellow of

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. J. N. Srivastava received a Ph.D. in 1962 from the

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. Prof.

R. C. Bose Raj Chandra Bose (or Basu) (19 June 1901 – 31 October 1987) was an Indian American mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory, finite geometry and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH c ...

was Srivastava's advisor. He joined

in 1966. He was known for his contributions in design of experiments as well as in multivariate analysis, survey sampling, reliability,

coding theory Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and computer data storage, data sto ...

, combinatorial theory, and other areas of statistics and mathematics. Srivastava code was invented by him. Gödel's incompleteness theorems inspired him to recognize the limitations of science. He slowly turned toward spirituality and studied all the major religions of the world. This led him to obtain his 1991 joint appointment in the philosophy department of CSU. After his retirement, he moved to California. He died on 18 November 2010.International Conference in Honor of the late Jagdish Srivastava, Optimal Design of Experiments - Theory and Application
/ref> He is survived by his wife of sixty years Usha, son Arvind, daughter Gita and son-in-law Roy; son Ashok, daughter-in-law Lynn and granddaughter Leela.

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J. N. Srivastava honored as a fellow of IMS
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Colorado State University faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Indian emigrants to the United States Indian statisticians 1934 births 2010 deaths Indian combinatorialists 20th-century Indian mathematicians {{statistician-stub