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{{Short description|Statistician and professor}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Malay Ghosh
| image = Malay Ghosh.jpg
| caption = Professor Malay Ghosh
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1944|4|15}} 
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]], [[British India]]
| citizenship = [[United States]]
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| field = [[Statistics]]
| work_institution = [[University of Florida]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]], [[Master of Arts|M.A.]])<br />[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] ([[Ph.D.]])
| doctoral_advisor = [[Pranab K. Sen]]
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'''Malay Ghosh''' ([[Bengali language|Bengali]]: মলয় ঘোষ) is an [[Indian-American]] [[statistician]] and currently a [[Distinguished Professor]] at the [[University of Florida]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archived.stat.ufl.edu/_personnel/usrpages/ghosh.shtml|title=Malay Ghosh|website=archived.stat.ufl.edu}}</ref> He obtained a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] in 1962 from the [[University of Calcutta]], and subsequently a [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in 1964 from the [[University of Calcutta]]. Then he moved to the United States to pursue higher academic studies and obtained his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] degree in 1969 from the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], under the supervision of [[Pranab K. Sen]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Malay Ghosh - the Mathematics Genealogy Project | url=https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=46725 }}</ref>

== Career ==
Ghosh was a faculty member at the [[Indian Statistical Institute]] in the 1970s before briefly joining [[Iowa State University]].
In 1982 he joined the [[University of Florida]].
Ghosh is well known for his research in [[nonparametric inference]], [[sequential analysis]], [[decision theory]], [[Bayesian statistics]]<ref>{{cite book | title = Bayesian Methods for Finite Population Sampling |author=Malay Ghosh |author2=Glen Meeden | publisher = Chapman and Hall/CRC | year = 1997 | isbn = 978-0412987717 | page = 296 }}</ref> and small-area estimation.<ref>RRC09 Recent Advances in Small Area Estimation http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=25359</ref>
As a recognition of his seminal contributions, Ghosh served from 1996 to 2001 in the [[United States]] Census Advisory Committee.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/cac|title=Census Advisory Committees (CAC) |website=The United States Census Bureau}}</ref> He has co-authored two books and more than 250 research publications and is the advisor of over 40 Ph.D. students, including Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Parthasarathi Lahiri and Gauri Sankar Datta.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=46725&fChrono=1 |title=Info |website=The Mathematics Genealogy Project |date= |access-date=2021-03-18}}</ref>

== Honors ==
In [[College Park, Maryland]], a conference was held in May 2014 honoring Professor Ghosh.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpsm.umd.edu/ghosh|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130626183149/http://www.jpsm.umd.edu/ghosh|title=Invited Speakers |website=The Joint Program in Survey Methodology |archive-date=26 June 2013}}</ref>

* Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award, 2020. [[American Statistical Association]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award | website=American Statistical Association (ASA) | url=https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/Samuel-S-Wilks-Memorial-Award.aspx | access-date=2021-03-18}}</ref>
* Elected Fellow of [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]]<ref>{{cite web |title=IMS Fellows: Honored IMS Fellows |website=Institute of Mathematical Statistics |url=http://imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm |access-date=2013-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019175343/http://imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm |archive-date=2016-10-19 }}</ref>
* Elected Fellow of [[American Statistical Association]], 1984<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amstat.org//ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|title=ASA Fellows List|website=www.amstat.org|access-date=2021-03-18|archive-date=2016-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm}}</ref>
* [[Lukacs Distinguished Professor]] 1993-1994

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://archived.stat.ufl.edu/_personnel/usrpages/ghosh.shtml Dr. Ghosh's profile at University of Florida]

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Maxlogistic at 00:32, 26 January 2026