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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian-born Iranian statistician (1942–2023)}}<br />
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'''Mahbanoo Tata''' (26 April 1942 – 7 August 2023) was an Indian-born Iranian statistician.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 August 2023 |title=Mother of Statistics of Iran laid to rest in Kerman |url=https://en.irna.ir/news/85193320/Mother-of-Statistics-of-Iran-laid-to-rest-in-Kerman |access-date=9 August 2023 |website=IRNA}}</ref> She was widely regarded as the ''founder of statistics in Iran.''<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 November 2014 |title=A Research Chair Is To Be Set Up In Memory Of Late Mina Izadyar - Iran Front Page |url=https://ifpnews.com/research-chair-set-memory-late-mina-izadyar/ |access-date=17 March 2023 |website=ifpnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=21 May 2021 |title=Commemoration of Dr Mahbano Tata, mother of Iranian Statistics - Amordadnews |url=https://en.amordadnews.com/?p=72432 |access-date=17 March 2023 |language=en-US |archive-date=17 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317234605/https://en.amordadnews.com/?p=72432 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Education==<br />
A [[Parsis|Zoroastrian (Parsi)]] from [[Mumbai|Bombay]], she attended her local university to obtain her bachelor's and master's degrees before attending [[Purdue University]] where she studied and graduated with a Ph.D. in statistics in 1967. After completing her education, she pursued a career in academia, eventually becoming a professor of statistics at several universities in Iran.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==Career==<br />
Tata came to Iran after five years of teaching at [[Michigan State University]] and spent two years as a statistics professor at Sharif University of Technology. Thereafter, over the course of the following 16 years, she established statistics as a subject at the Institute of Education, Statistics and Informatics, the Higher School of Computer Planning and Application, [[Islamic Azad University|Iran Azad University]], and [[Allameh Tabataba'i University|Allameh Tabatabai University]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=برومندی |first=گوهر |date=26 February 2021 |title=آیین نکوداشت دکتر ماهبانو تاتا؛ مادر آمار ایران برگزار میشود |url=https://amordadnews.com/68765/ |access-date=17 March 2023 |website=امرداد |language=fa-IR}}</ref><br />
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In 1989, she moved to [[Kerman]] to work in the statistics department of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at [[Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman]]. She oversaw the same department for many years.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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Tata was a member of scientific organisations including the International Institute of Statistics, the Iranian Society of Mathematicians, and the Iranian Society of Statistics. She was named as "Mother of Statistics of Iran" for all the contributions she made to Iran's statistical expertise.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==Death==<br />
Mahbanoo Tata died on 7 August 2023, at the age of 81.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 August 2023 |title=دکتر ماهبانو تاتا درگذشت |url=https://fardayekerman.ir/news/42804 |access-date=9 August 2023 |website=فردای کرمان |language=fa-IR}}</ref><br />
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