Jagdish Narain Srivastava (1933-2010) was an

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, statistician and a

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at Colorado State University. Srivastava is known for the research in the area of

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and

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. Srivastava was a Fellow of

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. J. N. Srivastava received a Ph.D. in 1962 from the

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. Prof. R. C. Bose was Srivastava's advisor. He joined Colorado State University in 1966. He was known for his contributions in design of experiments as well as in multivariate analysis, survey sampling, reliability, coding theory, combinatorial theory, and other areas of statistics and mathematics. Srivastava code was invented by him. Gödel's incompleteness theorems inspired him to recognize the limitations of science. He slowly turned toward spirituality and studied all the major religions of the world. This led him to obtain his 1991 joint appointment in the philosophy department of CSU. After his retirement, he moved to California. He died on 18 November 2010.International Conference in Honor of the late Jagdish Srivastava, Optimal Design of Experiments - Theory and Application
/ref> He is survived by his wife of sixty years Usha, son Arvind, daughter Gita and son-in-law Roy; son Ashok, daughter-in-law Lynn and granddaughter Leela.

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J. N. Srivastava honored as a fellow of IMS
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Colorado State University faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Indian emigrants to the United States Indian statisticians 1934 births 2010 deaths Indian combinatorialists 20th-century Indian mathematicians {{statistician-stub