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= Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972) was an influential Indian statistician and scientist known for his significant contributions to statistics and its applications in various fields, particularly in economics and agriculture. He is best known for developing the Mahalanobis distance, a measure that is used in multivariate analysis to determine the distance between a point and a distribution.