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Who founded the Indian Statistical...

Who founded the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Calcutta?

A

(a) JM Sengupta

B

(b) RN Mookerjee

C

(c) Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

D

(d) Subhendu Sekhar Bose

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C

Indian Statistical Institute is a public research university which is recognized as an institute of national importance in 1959 act of the Indian Parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in Presidency College, Kolkata.
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