Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, Indian statistician (01 April 1915 – 17 July 1996)

Proposed a measure of similarity between two multinomial distributions (Bhattacharya coefficient)

Defined a cosine metric for distance between distributions or measured the divergence between two probability distributions (Bhattacharya distance)

On a measure of divergence between two statistical populations defined by their probability distributions. Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 35:99-109, 1943

Established lower bounds to the variance of an unbiased estimator

Introduced the concept of affinity between two laws of probability

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Bhattacharya affinity

Bhattacharya bounds (1946)

Bhattacharya centroid

Bhattacharya clustering

Bhattacharya matrix

Cramer-Rao-Bhattacharya inequalities