Ravindra Khattree (born 1959) is an Indian-American
statistician
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and a distinguished
professor of
statistics
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at
Oakland University
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and a co-director of the Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics 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 ''
Communications in Statistics
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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
American Statistical Association.
[Jeff Samoray]
"Professor elected ASA fellow"
News Release, Oakland University, September 8, 2003
Khattree was born in
Uttar Pradesh, India. He attended the
Ewing Christian College-
Allahabad University and the
Indian Statistical Institute. In 1985, he earned a doctorate from the
University of Pittsburgh with