Rao has done much to advance knowledge in theory and practice of statistical inference. His book, Linear Statistical Inference and Its Applications, has been cited nearly 17,000 times.
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Interview with Professor Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
Frank Nielson—a professor of computer science at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, and a senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.—interviewed C. R. Rao this past year to learn more about his life and work. Read about what he discovered.