Ravindra Khattree (born 1959) is an Indian-American

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and a distinguished

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and a co-director of the Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics/ Institute for Data Science at the same university. His contribution to the Fountain–Khattree–Peddada Theorem in Pitman measure of closeness is one of the important results of his work. Khattree is the coauthor of two books and has coedited two volumes. He has served as an associate editor of the ''

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'' journal and the editor of the ''Interstat'' online journal. He was Chief editor of ''Journal of Statistics and Applications'' for more than ten years. He is an elected fellow of the

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"Professor elected ASA fellow"
News Release, Oakland University, September 8, 2003 Khattree was born in

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. He attended the Ewing Christian College-

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and the

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. In 1985, he earned a doctorate from the

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with Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao as his advisor and immediately joined the North Dakota State University. He became a faculty member at Oakland University in 1991. He was the biostatistics group leader in the Biomedical Research and Informatics Center and a professor of biostatistics in the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University during 2005–2006. He worked as a senior research scientist at US

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with assignment at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (formerly known as

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), Hiroshima during 2010–2011. Prior to joining Oakland University, he had been a faculty member at the

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and also worked at BFGoodrich Chemical Group. He is the paternal grandson of Binda Prasad Khattri.

Recognition

In 2002, Khattree received the Young Researcher Award from the International Indian Statistical Association."Research Excellence Award"
News release, Oakland University, April 16, 2008 Khattree was honored with fellowship in the

in 2003 and became an elected member of the

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in 2004. He is also a recipient of Oakland University Research Excellence Award (2008).

Bibliography

* ''Applied Multivariate Statistics with SAS Software'' (1995, 1999) with Dayanand N. Naik * ''Multivariate Data Reduction and Discrimination with SAS Software'' (2000) with Dayanand N. Naik * ''Handbook of Statistics Volume 22, Statistics in Industry'' (2002) with C.R. Rao * ''Computational Methods in Biomedical Research'' (2008) with Dayanand N. Naik

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Mathematical Genealogy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Khattree, Ravindra University of Pittsburgh alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association Indian emigrants to the United States Oakland University faculty 1959 births Living people Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute American academics of Indian descent