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{{Short description|Indian statistician}}
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|name = Kanti V. Mardia
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|caption = Kanti V. Mardia, 24 April 2008, [[Copenhagen]].
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|field = Statistics
|work_institutions = [[University of Leeds]]
| education = PhD (1965) from [[University of Rajasthan]], PhD (1967) and DSc (1973) from [[University of Newcastle Upon Tyne]]
| alma_mater = [[Ismail Yusuf College]], [[University of Bombay]], [[University of Poona]], [[University of Rajasthan]], [[University of Newcastle Upon Tyne]]
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|known_for = [[Bivariate von Mises distribution]]<br>[[Multivariate Pareto distribution]]<br>[[Multivariate_normal_distribution#Multivariate_normality_tests|Mardia test]]
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|prizes = [[Guy Medal]] {{small|(Silver, 2003)}}
[[Wilks Memorial Award]] {{small|(2013)}}
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|religion = Jainism
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'''Kantilal Vardichand''' "'''Kanti'''" '''Mardia''' (born 1935) is an Indian statistician specialising in [[directional statistics]], [[multivariate analysis]], [[geostatistics]], statistical [[bioinformatics]] and [[statistical shape analysis]].<ref>* {{Cite journal
| author = Nitis Mukhopadhyay
| author-link = Nitis Mukhopadhyay
| title = A Conversation with Kanti Mardia
| journal = [[Statistical Science]]
| volume = 17
| issue = 1
| year = 2002
| pages = 113–148
| url = http://projecteuclid.org:80/Dienst/UI/1.0/Summarize/euclid.ss/1023799001
| doi = 10.1214/ss/1023799001
| doi-access = free
}}</ref> He was born in [[Sirohi]], Rajasthan, [[India]] in a [[Jainism|Jain]] family and now resides and works in [[Leeds]]. He is known for his series of tests of multivariate normality based measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis<ref>L. Baringhaus and N. Henze (1992) Limit Distributions for Mardia's Measure of Multivariate Skewness. The Annals of Statistics 20(4):1889–1902</ref><ref>Mardia, K. V. (1970). Measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis. Biometrika 57:519–530</ref> as well as work on the statistical measures of shape.<ref>{{cite journal|title= The statistical analysis of shape data| author= Mardia KV and IL Dryden |year=1989| journal=Biometrika| volume=76| issue=2| pages=271–281| doi=10.1093/biomet/76.2.271}}</ref>

==Life and career==
Mardia was educated at the [[Ismail Yusuf College]] at the [[University of Bombay]] (BSc 1955, MSc in Statistics 1957), the [[University of Poona]] (MSc in Pure Mathematics 1961), the [[University of Rajasthan]] (PhD 1965) and the [[University of Newcastle Upon Tyne]] (PhD 1967, DSc 1973).<ref>[http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/education.html University of Leeds, List of Prof Mardia's degrees]</ref><ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=93605}}</ref> He held academic positions at the [[The Institute of Science, Mumbai|Institute of Science, Mumbai]] and the [[University of Hull]].

Mardia was appointed Professor of Applied Statistics and Head of the Department of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the [[University of Leeds]] in 1973. He retired in 2000 with the title [[Emeritus]] Professor and is currently Senior Research Professor of Applied Statistics at [[University of Leeds|Leeds]].<ref>[http://www.leeds.ac.uk/calendar/emeritus.htm University of Leeds, List of Emeritus Professors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926134723/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/calendar/emeritus.htm |date=26 September 2012 }}</ref><ref>[http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/ University of Leeds, Staff Profile]</ref> He is also a long-term Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, from March 2013, and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), from 2008.

He was instrumental in founding the Centre of Medical Imaging Research (CoMIR) in the [[University of Leeds]] where he held the position of joint director. He was the driving force behind the exchange programs between Leeds and other scholarly centres such as the University of Granada, Spain, and the [[Indian Statistical Institute]], Calcutta. He has written several scholarly books and edited conference proceedings and other special volumes.

In 1973, Mardia founded the University of Leeds Annual Statistics Research Workshops (LASR) which have run for most years and he has edited all the proceedings. These workshops attract an international audience and focus on applied statistical topics especially those involving shape and images, and more recently, [[bioinformatics]].

In 2003, he was awarded the [[Guy Medal|Guy Medal in Silver]] by the [[Royal Statistical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Guy Medal in Silver
| publisher = [[Royal Statistical Society]]
| access-date = 22 January 2008
| url = http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=2478
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080118235720/http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=2478
| archive-date = 18 January 2008
| url-status = dead
}}</ref>

In 2013, he was awarded the [[Wilks Memorial Award]] by the [[American Statistical Association]].<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Wilks Memorial Award
| publisher = [[American Statistical Association]]
| access-date = 3 March 2014
| url = http://www.amstat.org/awards/samuelwilksaward.cfm
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130627075200/http://amstat.org/awards/samuelwilksaward.cfm
| archive-date = 27 June 2013
| url-status = dead
}}</ref>

In 2019, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Indian Statistical Association.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Lifetime Achievement Award
| publisher = [[International Indian Statistical Association]]
| access-date = 17 February 2020
| url = https://www.intindstat.org/recipients
}}</ref>

He is a practicing Jain and strict vegetarian.<ref>Mukhopadhyay, Nitis. “A Conversation with Kanti Mardia.” Statistical Science, vol. 17, no. 1, 2002, pp. 113–148. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3182813. Accessed 11 Dec. 2020.</ref> His 1990 book ''The Scientific Foundations of Jainism'' introduced the Four Noble Truths of Jains.<ref>[https://jainelibrary.org/elib_master/book/022001_hathising_books_01/scientific_foundations_of_jainism_022772_toc.pdf Jain eLibrary: Contents, ''The Scientific Foundations of Jainism'']</ref><ref>Mardia, Kanti. "Modern Science and the Four Noble Truths of Jains." Young Jains International Newsletter, vol. 22, no. 1, 2008. London, UK, http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/FourNobleTruths-2.pdf</ref><ref>JAINpedia. Themes>Principles>Jain Beliefs>Jainism in Scientific Terms>'Four Noble Truths', http://www.jainpedia.org/themes/principles/jain-beliefs/jainism-in-scientific-terms.html#c3386. Accessed 11, Dec. 2020.</ref><ref>Marett, Paul. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 12, no. 1, 2002, pp. 116–118. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25188233. Accessed 11 Dec. 2020.</ref> He is the founding and current Chairman of the Yorkshire Jain Foundation.<ref>http://www.yjf.org.uk/index.htm</ref>

==Books==
*''Families of Bivariate Distributions'' (1970)
*''Multivariate Analysis'', coauthored with John T. Kent and John Bibby (1979)
*''Directional Statistics'', coauthored with [[Peter Jupp]], (1999) (first published under the title ''Statistics of Directional Data, 1972'')
*''Bayesian Methods in Structural Bioinformatics'', co-edited with Thomas Hamelryck and Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg (2012)
*''Statistical Shape Analysis'', coauthored with [[Ian Dryden]] (2016) (first edition 1998)
*''Living Jainism: An Ethical Science'', coauthored with Aidan Rankin (2013)
*''The Scientific Foundations of Jainism'' (1990)

== Mardia Prize ==
The Mardia Prize (founded by Kantilal Mardia) is awarded by the Royal Statistical Society.<ref>https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3304-rss-fellow-to-support-cutting-edge-interdisciplinary-workshops</ref> This award is given annually/biennially to support interdisciplinary workshops. The aim of these workshops is to bring together statisticians and other science communities who can help in developing new interdisciplinary area and maintain a sustained focus. The first award was inaugurated in 2016<ref>http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/MardiaPrize.html</ref> (Topic: renewable natural resources management, food security, climate change and the illegal wildlife trade) with the second in 2018<ref>https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3844-2018-mardia-prize-to-support-extreme-weather-research</ref> (Topic: extreme weather research) and the third in 2019<ref>https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/4214-2019-mardia-prize-to-support-workshops-on-economics-of-mental-health</ref> (Topic: economics of mental health).

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/index.html Home page at Leeds University]
*[http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Statistics/workshop/leeds2000/bookstein-review.html Review of the LASR on the occasion of Mardias 65th Birthday] by [[Fred Bookstein]].
*[http://www.yjf.org.uk/jain/index.php Yorkshire Jain Foundation]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*[http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/Newsletter_Feb2009.pdf In Conversation with Prof. Kanti V. Mardia . . .] in Research Newsletter of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. February 2009.

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