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200px kanti . v. mardia , 24 april 2008 , copenhagen jainism statistics university of leeds 3 april 1935 directional geostatistics , bioinformatics statistics , shape analysis , multivariate analysis , guy medal -lrb- silver , 2003 -rrb- kanti mardia.jpg kantilal mardia
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kantilal mardia

kantilal vardichand -lrb- `` kanti '' -rrb- mardia , msc , phd , dsc , -lrb- born 1935 -rrb- is a statistician specializing 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 .
