Ravindra Khattree
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Ravindra Khattree (Also known as Ravi Khattree) is a professor of statistics at Oakland University. He is an alumni of Ewing Christian College (University of Allahabad), Indian Statistical Institute and University of Pittsburgh. His academic genealogy is C. R. Rao-> R. A. Fisher.
Ravindra Khattree was born in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, India and had his initial schooling in various towns in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
Ravindra Khattree is well known for his research in statistical inference, multivariate analysis, variance component estimation and classification problems. The Fountain-Khattree-Peddada Theorem in Pitman measure of closeness is an important result about the comparison of estimators.
He is an author of more than 75 articles in statistics. 'Applied Multivariate Statistics with SAS Software (1995, 1999)' and 'Multivariate Data Reduction and Discrimination with SAS Software (2000)' are the two popular books co-written by him (coauthor, D. N. Naik) and co-published by John Wiley and Company and SAS Press. Interestingly, these books have been more frequently citated in interdisciplinary research fields than in main stream statistics research. He has co-edited 'Handbook of Statistics Volume 22, Statistics in Industry (2002)' with C.R. Rao and 'Computational Methods in Biomedical Research (2008)' with D. N. Naik.
Ravindra Khattree is a fellow of American Statistical Association, an elected member of International statistical Institute, a winner of Young Researcher Award from International Indian Statistical Association, the Research Excellence Award from Oakland University and An Apple for the Teacher Award from the University of Pittsburgh.
