In modern management parlance, Professor Mahalanobis was an “out of the box” thinker. While many of his research findings primarily arose from the need to solve applied statistical problems, the solutions straddled both applied and theoretical statistics.
We are happy that Professor Sastry Gouripathi Pantula, an alumnus of Indian Statistical Institute, has kindly accepted our invitation and will be sharing his thoughts with us today. Professor Pantula, an authority in time series analysis is currently Director of the Mathematical Sciences Division, National Science Foundation, the United States of America.