Q. Who among the following founded the Indian Statistical Institute?
Answer: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Notes: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was an Indian scientist and statistician who made significant contributions to the field of statistics and economic planning. He was born in Calcutta in 1893 and studied at the University of Cambridge in the UK. After returning to India, he founded the Indian Statistical Institute and served as a member of the Indian National Science Academy. Mahalanobis is best known for his development of the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure that is used to determine the similarity between two data sets.
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