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'''Kantilal Vardichand''' "'''Kanti'''" '''Mardia''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 1935) is an Indian-British statistician specialising in ], ], ], statistical ] and ].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |title=Geometry Driven Statistics |series=Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2015 |isbn=9781118866573 |editor-last=Dryden |editor-first=Ian L. and John T. Kent |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781118866641}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2014-02-04 |title='Statistics provides a challenge somewhat akin to Sherlock Holmes' task: how to find hidden truth in any data, from small to big.' An interview with Samuel S. Wilks Award winner Kanti Mardia |url=https://www.statisticsviews.com/article/statistics-provides-a-challenge-somewhat-akin-to-sherlock-holmes-task-how-to-find-hidden-truth-in-any-data-from-small-to-big-an-interview-with-samuel-s-wilks-award-winne/ |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=Stats & Data Science Views |language=en-GB}}</ref> He was born in ], ], India in a ] family and now resides and works in ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Mukhopadhyay |first=Nitis |date=May 2002 |title=A Conversation with Kanti Mardia |url=https://projecteuclid.org/journals/statistical-science/volume-17/issue-1/A-Conversation-with-Kanti-Mardia/10.1214/ss/1023799001.full |journal=] |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=113–148, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3182813 |doi=10.1214/ss/1023799001 |issn=0883-4237 |via=Project Euclid}}</ref> He is known for his series of tests of multivariate normality based measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis<ref>L. Baringhaus and N. Henze (1992) Limit Distributions for Mardia's Measure of Multivariate Skewness. The Annals of Statistics 20(4):1889–1902</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Cain |first1=Meghan K. |last2=Zhang |first2=Zhiyong |last3=Yuan |first3=Ke-Hai |date=2017-10-01 |title=Univariate and multivariate skewness and kurtosis for measuring nonnormality: Prevalence, influence and estimation |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-016-0814-1 |journal=Behavior Research Methods |language=en |volume=49 |issue=5 |pages=1716–1735 |doi=10.3758/s13428-016-0814-1 |issn=1554-3528}}</ref><ref>Mardia, K. V. (1970). Measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis. Biometrika 57:519–530</ref> as well as work on the statistical measures of shape.<ref>{{cite journal|title= The statistical analysis of shape data| author= Mardia KV and IL Dryden |year=1989| journal=Biometrika| volume=76| issue=2| pages=271–281| doi=10.1093/biomet/76.2.271}}</ref>
'''Kantilal Vardichand''' "'''Kanti'''" '''Mardia''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 1935) is an Indian-British statistician specialising in ], ], ], statistical ] and ].<ref>* {{Cite journal
| author = Nitis Mukhopadhyay
| author-link = Nitis Mukhopadhyay
| title = A Conversation with Kanti Mardia
| journal = ]
| volume = 17
| issue = 1
| year = 2002
| pages = 113–148
| url = http://projecteuclid.org:80/Dienst/UI/1.0/Summarize/euclid.ss/1023799001
| doi = 10.1214/ss/1023799001
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}}</ref> He was born in ], Rajasthan, India in a ] family and now resides and works in ]. He is known for his series of tests of multivariate normality based measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis<ref>L. Baringhaus and N. Henze (1992) Limit Distributions for Mardia's Measure of Multivariate Skewness. The Annals of Statistics 20(4):1889–1902</ref><ref>Mardia, K. V. (1970). Measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis. Biometrika 57:519–530</ref> as well as work on the statistical measures of shape.<ref>{{cite journal|title= The statistical analysis of shape data| author= Mardia KV and IL Dryden |year=1989| journal=Biometrika| volume=76| issue=2| pages=271–281| doi=10.1093/biomet/76.2.271}}</ref>


==Life and career== ==Life and career==
Mardia was educated at the ] at the ] (BSc 1955, MSc in statistics 1957), the ] (MSc in pure mathematics 1961), the ] (PhD 1965) and the ] (PhD 1967, DSc 1973).<ref></ref><ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=93605}}</ref> He held academic positions at the ] and the ]. Mardia was educated at the ] at the ] (BSc 1955, MSc in statistics 1957), the ] (MSc in pure mathematics 1961), the ] (PhD 1965) and the ] (PhD 1967, DSc 1973).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-05-11 |title=University of Leeds, Kanti Mardia - Education |url=http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/education.html |access-date=2024-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511122804/http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/education.html |archive-date=11 May 2009 }}</ref> He held academic positions at the ] and the ].


Mardia was appointed professor of applied statistics and head of the Department of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the ] in 1973. He retired in 2000 with the title ] professor and is currently senior research professor of applied statistics at ].<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926134723/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/calendar/emeritus.htm |date=26 September 2012 }}</ref><ref></ref> He is also a long-term visiting professor at the University of Oxford, from March 2013, and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), from 2008. Mardia was appointed professor of applied statistics and head of the Department of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the ] in 1973. He retired in 2000 with the title ] professor and is currently senior research professor of applied statistics at ], where he has held the Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship since 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.leeds.ac.uk/calendar/emeritus.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926134723/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/calendar/emeritus.htm|url-status=dead|title=University of Leeds, List of Emeritus Professors|archivedate=26 September 2012}}</ref><ref></ref> He has been a long-term visiting professor at the University of Oxford since 2013, and was adjunct faculty with the ] from 2012 to 2014.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />


He was instrumental in founding the Centre of Medical Imaging Research (CoMIR) in the ], where he held the position of joint director. He was the driving force behind the exchange programs between Leeds and other scholarly centres such as the University of Granada, Spain, and the ], Calcutta. He has written several scholarly books and edited conference proceedings and other special volumes. He helped establish both the Centre of Medical Imaging Research (CoMIR) and the Centre of Statistical Bioinformatics (CoSB) at Leeds, and was initially the director of CoMIR.<ref name=":3" /> He has written several books and edited conference proceedings.


In 1973, Mardia founded the University of Leeds Annual Statistics Research Workshops (LASR) which have run for most years and he has edited all the proceedings. These workshops attract an international audience and focus on applied statistical topics especially those involving shape and images, and more recently, ]. In 1973, Mardia founded the University of Leeds Annual Statistics Research Workshops, designed to promote interdisciplinary research. These workshops attract an international audience and focus on applied statistical topics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop (LASR) 2024 {{!}} LASR2024 |url=https://conferences.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2024/ |access-date=2024-10-05 |website=conferences.leeds.ac.uk}}</ref>


Mardia has received a number of honours, including a 2003 ] from the ], which noted "his many path breaking contributions to statistical science ... and his lasting leadership role in interdisciplinary research";<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009 |title=Statistics in a Changing Society - 175 Years of Progress |url=https://rss.org.uk/RSS/media/File-library/Conference/RSS-2009-abstracts-booklet.pdf |access-date=2024-10-05 |website=Royal Statistical Society}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
In 2003, he was awarded the ] by the ].<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Guy Medal in Silver | title = Guy Medal in Silver
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}}</ref> the 2013 ] from the ], which noted his "seminal results in shape analysis, spatial statistics, multivariate analysis, directional data analysis, and bioinformatics";<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2013 |title=Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award |url=https://magazine.amstat.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Amst_October2013.pdf |journal=Amstat News |issue=436 |pages=21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award |url=https://www.amstat.org/your-career/awards/samuel-s-wilks-memorial-award |url-status= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212011855/https://www.amstat.org/your-career/awards/samuel-s-wilks-memorial-award |archive-date=2022-02-12 |access-date=30 September 2024 |publisher=]}}</ref> the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Indian Statistical Association;<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |date=2019 |title=Lifetime Achievement Award |url=https://www.intindstat.org/public/uploads/newsletters/IISAfa19-fall.pdf |journal=IISA Fall 2019 Newsletter}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lifetime Achievement Award |url=https://www.intindstat.org/recipients |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220112191710/https://www.intindstat.org/recipients |archive-date=2022-01-12 |access-date=2024-10-01 |publisher=]}}</ref> the 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Medal of Honour from the NRI Institute;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mahatma Gandhi Medal of Honour |url=https://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/honours.html#MGM |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103145713/https://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/honours.html |archive-date=2023-11-03 |access-date=23 December 2022 |publisher=University of Leeds, Kanti Mardia - Honours}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> and the 2021 OneJAIN Life Achievement Award from the Jain All-Party Parliamentary Group.<ref>{{Cite web
}}</ref>

In 2013, he was awarded the ] by the ].<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Wilks Memorial Award
| publisher = ]
| access-date = 3 March 2014
| url = http://www.amstat.org/awards/samuelwilksaward.cfm
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130627075200/http://amstat.org/awards/samuelwilksaward.cfm
| archive-date = 27 June 2013
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In 2019, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Indian Statistical Association.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Lifetime Achievement Award
| publisher = ]
| access-date = 17 February 2020
| url = https://www.intindstat.org/recipients
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In 2020, he was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Medal of Honour by the NRI Institute.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Mahatma Gandhi Medal of Honour
| publisher = University of Leeds, Staff Profile - Honours
| access-date = 23 December 2022
| url = https://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/honours.html#MGM
}}</ref>

In 2021, he received the OneJAIN Life Achievement Award from the Jain All-Party Parliamentary Group.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = OneJAIN Life Achievement Award | title = OneJAIN Life Achievement Award
| publisher = University of Leeds, Staff Profile | publisher = University of Leeds, Staff Profile
| access-date = 23 December 2022 | access-date = 23 December 2022
| url = https://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/ | url = https://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/
}}</ref> He is the founding Vice-President of International Indian Statistical Association, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the ], and the Royal Statistical Society.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kanti Mardia in UK Honours List |url=https://imstat.org/2023/03/31/kanti-mardia-in-uk-honours-list/ |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=American Statistical Association Fellows |url=https://ww2.amstat.org/fellows/ |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mardia Prize |url=https://rss.org.uk/training-events/events/honours/mardia-prize/ |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=]}}</ref> The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's 2020 Virtual Symposium on Directional Statistics was dedicated to Mardia.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2021-03-23 |title=2020 Virtual Symposium on Directional Statistics |url=https://isas.iar.kit.edu/de/1435.php |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |language=en}}</ref> He gave the 40th Fisher Memorial Lecture on 18 November 2022 at the Oxford Mathematical Institute.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fisher Memorial Lecture |url=http://www.senns.uk/FisherWeb.html#FL40 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224035920/http://www.senns.uk/FisherWeb.html#FL40 |archive-date=2022-12-24 |access-date=23 December 2022 |publisher=Fisher Memorial Trust}}</ref> A ] honoring his work resulted in an edited volume, ''Geometry Driven Statistics''.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
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⚫ He is a practicing Jain and strict vegetarian.<ref name=":0" /> His 1990 book ''The Scientific Foundations of Jainism'' introduced the Four Noble Truths of Jains.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jain eLibrary: ''The Scientific Foundations of Jainism'' |url=https://jainelibrary.org/ |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=Use "Mardia" in the search bar.}}</ref><ref>Mardia, Kanti. "Modern Science and the Four Noble Truths of Jains." Young Jains International Newsletter, vol. 22, no. 1, 2008. London, UK, </ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mardia |first=Kanti V. |title=Jainism in scientific terms |url=https://jainpedia.org/themes/principles/jain-beliefs/jainism-in-scientific-terms/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018023048/http://www.jainpedia.org/themes/principles/jain-beliefs/jainism-in-scientific-terms.html#c3386 |archive-date=18 October 2021 |access-date= |website=JAINpedia}}</ref> He founded the Yorkshire Jain Foundation.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Yorkshire Jain Foundation |url=http://www.yjf.org.uk/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003143611/http://www.yjf.org.uk/index.htm |archive-date=3 October 2011 |access-date=2024-10-14}}</ref>
The 40th Fisher Memorial Lecture was given by Professor Mardia on 18 November 2022 at the Oxford Mathematical Institute.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Fisher Memorial Lecture
| publisher = Fisher Memorial Trust
| access-date = 23 December 2022
| url = http://www.senns.uk/FisherWeb.html#FL40
}}</ref>


⚫ Mardia was appointed ] (OBE) in the ] for services to statistical science.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63918|supp=y|page=N14|date=31 December 2022}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Mukherjee |first=Arundhati |date=2023-01-16 |title=British Indian statistician conferred prestigious UK honour |url=https://www.iglobalnews.com/newsviews/british-indian-statistician-conferred-prestigious-uk-honour |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=iGlobal News |language=en}}</ref>
⚫ He is a practicing Jain and strict vegetarian.<ref>Mukhopadhyay, Nitis. “A Conversation with Kanti Mardia.” Statistical Science, vol. 17, no. 1, 2002, pp. 113–148. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3182813. Accessed 11 Dec. 2020.</ref> His 1990 book ''The Scientific Foundations of Jainism'' introduced the Four Noble Truths of Jains.<ref></ref><ref>Mardia, Kanti. "Modern Science and the Four Noble Truths of Jains." Young Jains International Newsletter, vol. 22, no. 1, 2008. London, UK, http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/FourNobleTruths-2.pdf</ref><ref>JAINpedia. Themes>Principles>Jain Beliefs>Jainism in Scientific Terms>'Four Noble Truths', http://www.jainpedia.org/themes/principles/jain-beliefs/jainism-in-scientific-terms.html#c3386. Accessed 11, Dec. 2020.</ref><ref>Marett, Paul. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 12, no. 1, 2002, pp. 116–118. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25188233. Accessed 11 Dec. 2020.</ref> He is the founding and current chairman of the Yorkshire Jain Foundation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yjf.org.uk/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003143611/http://www.yjf.org.uk/index.htm |archive-date=3 October 2011 |title=YORKSHIRE JAIN FOUNDATION - YJF HOME}}</ref>

⚫ Mardia was appointed ] (OBE) in the ] for services to statistical science.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63918|supp=y|page=N14|date=31 December 2022}}</ref>


==Books== ==Books==
*''Families of Bivariate Distributions'' (1970) *''Families of Bivariate Distributions'' (1970)
*''Multivariate Analysis'', coauthored with John T. Kent and John Bibby (1979) *''Multivariate Analysis'', coauthored with John T. Kent and John Bibby (1979)
*''Directional Statistics'', coauthored with Peter Jupp, (1999) (first published under the title ''Statistics of Directional Data, 1972'') *''Directional Statistics'', coauthored with Peter Jupp, (1999) (first published under the title ''Statistics of Directional Data,'' 1972)
*''Bayesian Methods in Structural Bioinformatics'', co-edited with Thomas Hamelryck and Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg (2012) *''Bayesian Methods in Structural Bioinformatics'', co-edited with Thomas Hamelryck and Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg (2012)
*''Statistical Shape Analysis'', coauthored with ] (2016) (first edition 1998) *''Statistical Shape Analysis'', coauthored with ] (2016) (first edition 1998)
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*''The Scientific Foundations of Jainism'' (1990) *''The Scientific Foundations of Jainism'' (1990)
*''Living Jainism: An Ethical Science'', coauthored with Aidan Rankin (2013) *''Living Jainism: An Ethical Science'', coauthored with Aidan Rankin (2013)



== Mardia Prize == == Mardia Prize ==
The Mardia Prize (founded by Kantilal Mardia) is awarded by the Royal Statistical Society.<ref>https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3304-rss-fellow-to-support-cutting-edge-interdisciplinary-workshops</ref> This award is given annually/biennially to support interdisciplinary workshops. The aim of these workshops is to bring together statisticians and other science communities who can help in developing new interdisciplinary area and maintain a sustained focus. The first award was inaugurated in 2016<ref>http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/MardiaPrize.html</ref> (Topic: renewable natural resources management, food security, climate change and the illegal wildlife trade) with the second in 2018<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3844-2018-mardia-prize-to-support-extreme-weather-research |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819115929/https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3844-2018-mardia-prize-to-support-extreme-weather-research |archive-date=19 August 2019 |title=2018 Mardia Prize to support extreme weather research {{!}} StatsLife}}</ref> (Topic: ] research) and the third in 2019<ref>https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/4214-2019-mardia-prize-to-support-workshops-on-economics-of-mental-health</ref> (Topic: economics of mental health). The Mardia Prize, awarded by the Royal Statistical Society, was founded by Mardia in 2015 to foster collaboration between statisticians and scientists via "workshops in emerging interdisciplinary areas".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3304-rss-fellow-to-support-cutting-edge-interdisciplinary-workshops |title=RSS fellow to support cutting edge interdisciplinary workshops &#124; StatsLife |access-date=19 August 2019 |archive-date=19 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819115928/https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3304-rss-fellow-to-support-cutting-edge-interdisciplinary-workshops |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mardia Prize |url=https://rss.org.uk/training-events/events/honours/mardia-prize/ |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=Royal Society of Statistics}}</ref> The first award was given in 2016<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170817144612/http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/MardiaPrize.html, archived from the original http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~sta6kvm/MardiaPrize.html{{dl|date=June 2024}} on 17 August 2017</ref> (Topic: renewable natural resources management, food security, climate change and the illegal wildlife trade) with the second in 2018<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3844-2018-mardia-prize-to-support-extreme-weather-research |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819115929/https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3844-2018-mardia-prize-to-support-extreme-weather-research |archive-date=19 August 2019 |title=2018 Mardia Prize to support extreme weather research {{!}} StatsLife}}</ref> (Topic: ] research) and the third in 2019<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/4214-2019-mardia-prize-to-support-workshops-on-economics-of-mental-health |title=2019 Mardia Prize to support workshops on economics of mental health &#124; StatsLife |access-date=19 August 2019 |archive-date=19 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819115926/https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/4214-2019-mardia-prize-to-support-workshops-on-economics-of-mental-health |url-status=dead }}</ref> (Topic: economics of mental health).


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Kanti V. Mardia
OBE
Mardia in 2008
Born (1935-04-03) 3 April 1935 (age 89)
EducationPhD (1965) from University of Rajasthan, PhD (1967) and DSc (1973) from University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Alma materIsmail Yusuf College, University of Bombay, University of Poona, University of Rajasthan, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Known forBivariate von Mises distribution
Multivariate Pareto distribution
Mardia test
AwardsGuy Medal (Silver, 2003)
Wilks Memorial Award (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds

Kantilal Vardichand "Kanti" Mardia OBE (born 1935) is an Indian-British statistician specialising in directional statistics, multivariate analysis, geostatistics, statistical bioinformatics and statistical shape analysis. He was born in Sirohi, Rajasthan, India in a Jain family and now resides and works in Leeds. He is known for his series of tests of multivariate normality based measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis as well as work on the statistical measures of shape.

Life and career

Mardia was educated at the Ismail Yusuf College at the University of Bombay (BSc 1955, MSc in statistics 1957), the University of Poona (MSc in pure mathematics 1961), the University of Rajasthan (PhD 1965) and the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (PhD 1967, DSc 1973). He held academic positions at the Institute of Science, Mumbai and the University of Hull.

Mardia was appointed professor of applied statistics and head of the Department of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds in 1973. He retired in 2000 with the title emeritus professor and is currently senior research professor of applied statistics at Leeds, where he has held the Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship since 2017. He has been a long-term visiting professor at the University of Oxford since 2013, and was adjunct faculty with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad from 2012 to 2014.

He helped establish both the Centre of Medical Imaging Research (CoMIR) and the Centre of Statistical Bioinformatics (CoSB) at Leeds, and was initially the director of CoMIR. He has written several books and edited conference proceedings.

In 1973, Mardia founded the University of Leeds Annual Statistics Research Workshops, designed to promote interdisciplinary research. These workshops attract an international audience and focus on applied statistical topics.

Mardia has received a number of honours, including a 2003 Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society, which noted "his many path breaking contributions to statistical science ... and his lasting leadership role in interdisciplinary research"; the 2013 Wilks Memorial Award from the American Statistical Association, which noted his "seminal results in shape analysis, spatial statistics, multivariate analysis, directional data analysis, and bioinformatics"; the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Indian Statistical Association; the 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Medal of Honour from the NRI Institute; and the 2021 OneJAIN Life Achievement Award from the Jain All-Party Parliamentary Group. He is the founding Vice-President of International Indian Statistical Association, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Royal Statistical Society. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's 2020 Virtual Symposium on Directional Statistics was dedicated to Mardia. He gave the 40th Fisher Memorial Lecture on 18 November 2022 at the Oxford Mathematical Institute. A festschrift honoring his work resulted in an edited volume, Geometry Driven Statistics.

He is a practicing Jain and strict vegetarian. His 1990 book The Scientific Foundations of Jainism introduced the Four Noble Truths of Jains. He founded the Yorkshire Jain Foundation.

Mardia was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to statistical science.

Books

  • Families of Bivariate Distributions (1970)
  • Multivariate Analysis, coauthored with John T. Kent and John Bibby (1979)
  • Directional Statistics, coauthored with Peter Jupp, (1999) (first published under the title Statistics of Directional Data, 1972)
  • Bayesian Methods in Structural Bioinformatics, co-edited with Thomas Hamelryck and Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg (2012)
  • Statistical Shape Analysis, coauthored with Ian L. Dryden (2016) (first edition 1998)
  • Spatial Analysis, coauthored with John T. Kent (2022)
  • The Scientific Foundations of Jainism (1990)
  • Living Jainism: An Ethical Science, coauthored with Aidan Rankin (2013)

Mardia Prize

The Mardia Prize, awarded by the Royal Statistical Society, was founded by Mardia in 2015 to foster collaboration between statisticians and scientists via "workshops in emerging interdisciplinary areas". The first award was given in 2016 (Topic: renewable natural resources management, food security, climate change and the illegal wildlife trade) with the second in 2018 (Topic: extreme weather research) and the third in 2019 (Topic: economics of mental health).

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