2026 J. N. K. Rao: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	66	352	293	12	10	207	22925

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Canada Leader Award
1991 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
1966 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1964 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

J. N. K. Rao is affiliated with Carleton University in Canada and conducts research predominantly within the field of Mathematics, with a focus on Statistics and Probability. Their work also spans related subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research, and Artificial Intelligence.

The research topics covered by Rao include Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Statistical Methods and Inference, Survey Methodology and Nonresponse, Spatial and Panel Data Analysis, Economic and Environmental Valuation, demographic modeling and climate adaptation, and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models.

Rao has contributed to a number of scholarly articles, with selected recent papers including:

On Making Valid Inferences by Integrating Data from Surveys and Other Sources, 2020, Sankhya B
Empirical likelihood inference with public-use survey data, 2020, Electronic Journal of Statistics
Hypotheses Testing from Complex Survey Data Using Bootstrap Weights: A Unified Approach, 2023, Journal of the American Statistical Association
Effective transformation-based variable selection under two-fold subarea models in small area estimation, 2020, Statistics in Transition New Series
Discussion of "Small Area Estimation: Its Evolution in Five Decades", by Malay Ghosh, 2020, Statistics in Transition New Series

Frequent co-authors with whom Rao has published multiple works include Laura Dumitrescu, Changbao Wu, Jae Kwang Kim, Puying Zhao, and Song Cai.

Rao's research appears regularly in various publication venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Statistics in Transition New Series, Sankhya B, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Electronic Journal of Statistics.

Over the course of their career, Rao has received several distinctions including election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1991, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1966, and Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1964.

Best Publications

Small Area Estimation

J. N. K. Rao

3155
Citations
On Chi-Squared Tests for Multiway Contingency Tables with Cell Proportions Estimated from Survey Data

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1471
Citations
The Analysis of Categorical Data from Complex Sample Surveys: Chi-Squared Tests for Goodness of Fit and Independence in Two-Way Tables

J. N. K. Rao;A. J. Scott

1251
Citations
Small Area Estimation: An Appraisal

M. Ghosh;J. N. K. Rao

1246
Citations
The estimation of the mean squared error of small-area estimators

N. G. N. Prasad;J. N. K. Rao

1118
Citations
Maximum-likelihood estimation for the mixed analysis of variance model

H. O. Hartley;J. N. K. Rao

930
Citations
Resampling Inference with Complex Survey Data

J. N. K. Rao;C. F. J. Wu

787
Citations
A simple method for the analysis of clustered binary data.

J. N. K. Rao;A. J. Scott

742
Citations
Small Area Estimation: Rao/Small Area Estimation

J.N.K. Rao;Isabel Molina

732
Citations
Jackknife variance estimation with survey data under hot deck imputation

J. N. K. Rao;J. Shao

460
Citations
Inference From Stratified Samples: Properties of the Linearization, Jackknife and Balanced Repeated Replication Methods

D. Krewski;J. N. K. Rao

442
Citations
Small area estimation of poverty indicators

Isabel Molina;J. N. K. Rao

391
Citations
On Simple Adjustments to Chi-Square Tests with Sample Survey Data

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368
Citations
Sampling with Unequal Probabilities and without Replacement

H. O. Hartley;J. N. K. Rao

352
Citations
Empirical likelihood-based inference under imputation for missing response data

Qihua Wang;J. N. K. Rao

351
Citations
ON A SIMPLE PROCEDURE OF UNEQUAL PROBABILITY SAMPLING WITHOUT REPLACEMENT

J. N. K. Rao;H. O. Hartley;W. G. Cochran

343
Citations
Mean squared error of empirical predictor

Kalyan Das;Jiming Jiang;J. N. K. Rao

319
Citations
Small‐area estimation by combining time‐series and cross‐sectional data

J. N. K. Rao;Mingyu Yu

301
Citations
A new estimation theory for sample surveys

H. O. Hartley;J. N. K. Rao

259
Citations
On estimating distribution functions and quantiles from survey data using auxiliary information

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245
Citations
On Variance Estimation with Imputed Survey Data

J. N. K. Rao

236
Citations
On measuring the variability of small area estimators under a basic area level model

Gauri Sankar Datta;J. N. K. Rao;David Daniel Smith

206
Citations
Estimation in dual frame surveys with complex designs

Chris J. Skinner;J. N. K. Rao

191
Citations
Small area estimation on poverty indicators

J.N.K. Rao;Isabel Molina

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Shao University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jiahua Chen University of British Columbia

Malay Ghosh University of Florida

Daniel Krewski University of Ottawa

Wayne A. Fuller Iowa State University

James Wyckoff University of Virginia

Alan M. Zaslavsky Harvard University

Sally C. Morton Arizona State University

Domingo Morales Miguel Hernandez University

External Links

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