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Lalitha (Lilly) Padman Sanathanan is an Indian statistician.

Sanathanan's early research concerned estimation of population size from sampled data, in the context of particle physics. She completed her Ph.D. in 1969, at the University of Chicago; her dissertation, Estimating Population Size in the Particle Scanning Context, was supervised by David Lee Wallace. [1] After several years as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, [2] she moved to Argonne National Laboratory in the late 1970s. [3]

By 1991 she had shifted career direction, to drug development. After working as a senior statistician at Abbott Laboratories, associate director of statistics for Ciba-Geigy, and director of research statistics for Smith, Kline & French, she became a director in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research of the Food and Drug Administration. [4] She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1990. [5] In 1991 she returned to private industry, as vice president of biostatistics and clinical data systems at the Institute for Biological Research and Development in Irvine, California. [4] She later founded ClinWorld, a binational (US and Indian) clinical research organisation, which was purchased by Indian health corporation Sami Labs (now the Sami-Sabinsa Group) in 2003. [6]

In 2008 she published a self-help book, Life Vest, in Bangalore. [7] She continues to operate a Florida-based statistics firm, STATLINK, and is a contributor to a cross-cultural podcast, the Global India Podcast. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Lilly Sanathanan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Affiliation as listed on her publications "Estimating the Size of a Multinomial Population" (1972, doi:10.1214/aoms/1177692709) and "Estimating the Size of a Truncated Sample" (1977, doi:10.2307/2286238)
  3. ↑ DOE Statistical Symposium, Sandia Laboratories (PDF), 1978, p. 332
  4. 1 2 "Lilly P. Sanathanan has joined the Institute...", Los Angeles Times , June 26, 1991, retrieved 2022-08-08
  5. ↑ ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2022-08-08
  6. ↑ Urs, Anil (August 5, 2003), "Sami Labs buys CRO ClinWorld", The Economic Times, retrieved 2022-08-08
  7. ↑ "Striking the perfect balance", The New Indian Express, December 2, 2008, retrieved 2022-08-08
  8. ↑ Global India Podcast , retrieved 2022-08-08
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