The correct answer is option 1, i.e. P.C. Mahalanobis.
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Who founded the Indian Statistical Institute on 17 December 1931?
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P.C. Mahalanobis
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Who was P.C. Mahalanobis?
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- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was an Indian scientist and statistician.
- He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first Planning Commission of free India.
- P.C. Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute on 17 December 1931.
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What is the Indian Statistical Institute?
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- Headquarters: Kolkata.
- Indian Statistical Institute has the status of an Institution of National Importance. This status was given by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959.
- Statistics, natural sciences and social sciences are main areas of research.
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