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"A SCHEME for the Organisation of Statistical Researches in India,"which was submitted for consideration to the Government of Bengal in August last, is largely concerned with a report on statistical researches which have been carried out since 1923. Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis, of the Presidency College, Calcutta, has been actively engaged during the past ten years in preparing reports for various Government departments, building up a laboratory for the application of modern statistical methods to a variety of problems and encouraging such studies in other ways. His labours in this direction have been receiving growing recognition and a plea is made for official support of the small institution which was created by individual initiative. The Indian Statistical Institute was founded in December 1931, for the purpose of promoting “the study of statistics both pure and applied and allied subjects”, and the first part of Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics, edited by Prof. Mahalanobis, was issued last June. This part contains original researches dealing with the theory of statistics and applications to particular economic, medical, anthropometric and psychological problems. There is obviously an enormous scope for useful work of this kind in India, and it is to be hoped that those who have proved themselves willing and capable of prosecuting it will receive all possible encouragement.
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The Indian Statistical Institute. Nature 132, 998 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132998a0
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