Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar (15 September 1919 – 15 November 1991) was an Indian statistician from

Kolhapur Kolhapur () is a city on the banks of the Panchganga River in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarter of the Kolhapur district. In, around 2 C.E. Kolapur's name was 'Kuntal'. Kolhapur is ...

. Huzurbazar was the founder head of the department of statistics,

University of Pune Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Poona, is a collegiate public state university located in the city of Pune, India. It was established in 1949, and is spread over a campus in the neighbourhood of Ganeshk ...

from 1953 to 1976. From 1979 to 1991, he served as professor at

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until his death. He served as visiting professor for two years to the

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in 1962. In 1974, Huzurbazar was awarded the

Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...

from Government of India for his contributions to the field of statistics. In 1983 he was elected as a

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Career

Huzurbazar completed his high school from Rajaram High school, Kolhapur. He did his B.Sc. from

University of Mumbai The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed h ...

and M.Sc. in statistics from

Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU) IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/), is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916 ...

during 1940–1941. Huzurbazar earned his Ph.D. in statistics from

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in 1950; his advisor was

Harold Jeffreys Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His book, ''Theory of Probability'', which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the revival ...

. Huzurbazar worked in the

Gauhati University Gauhati University, also known as GU, is a Collegiate university, collegiate public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established on 26 January 1948 under the provisions of an Act enacted by the Assam Legislative Assem ...

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and also in the Bureau of Economics and Statistics of Government of Bombay.

Personal

Huzurbazar's two daughters,

Snehalata V. Huzurbazar Snehalata V. Huzurbazar is an American statistician, known for her work in statistical genetics, and also interested in applications of statistics to geology. She is a professor of biostatistics, and chair of the biostatistics department, at the ...

and

Aparna V. Huzurbazar Aparna V. Huzurbazar is an American statistician known for her work using graphical models to understand time-to-event data. She is the author of a book on this subject, ''Flowgraph Models for Multistate Time-to-Event Data'' (Wiley, 2004). Huzurb ...

, both became notable statisticians.

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