My chancy life as a Statistician

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Professor Changbao Wu, Guest Editor for this joint special issue between ISR and Survey Methodology, invited me to write an article tracing my chancy life as a statistician over the past 60 years. The joint special issue consists of papers based on plenary talks presented at a conference held in Kunming, China, May 24-27, 2017. This conference was sponsored by the Research Institute of Big Data, Yunnan University, and the organizing committee was chaired by Professor Jiahua Chen. I wish to first thank Professor Chen for organizing this conference “Contemporary Theory and Practice of Survey Sampling”, celebrating my 80th birthday. I also wish to thank Professor Ray Chambers, Guest co-editor of ISR and Wesley Yung, Editor of Survey Methodology, for proposing this joint special issue, and to all the speakers for their excellent presentations. In this short article, I will attempt to provide some highlights of my chancy life as a Statistician in chronological order covering the period 1954-1958 in India, 1959-68 in USA with a one year break in 1963 in India, 1968-69 again in India and finally in Canada since 1969.

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Abstract - Article main page
Section 1. Introduction
Section 2. Early life in India
Section 3. Life in USA: 1958-68
Section 4. Life in Canada: 1959-2000
Section 5. Post retirement: 2000-present
Acknowledgements
References

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