Debabrata Basu | |
|---|---|
 Debabrata Basu | |
| Born | 5 July 1924 |
| Died | 24 March 2001 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Statistician |
Debabrata Basu (5 July 1924 – 24 March 2001) was an Indian statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics. Basu invented simple examples that displayed some difficulties of likelihood-based statistics and frequentist statistics; Basu's paradoxes were especially important in the development of survey sampling. In statistical theory, Basu's theorem established the independence of a complete sufficient statistic and an ancillary statistic.[1]
Basu was associated with the Indian Statistical Institute in India, and Florida State University in the United States.[2]
- ^ Page i in Ghosh, Malay; Pathak, Pramod K. (January 1992). "Preface". In Malay Ghosh; Pramod K. Pathak (eds.). Current Issues in Statistical Inference—Essays in Honor of D. Basu. Vol. 17. Hayward, CA: Institute for Mathematical Statistics. pp. i–ii. doi:10.1214/lnms/1215458836. MR 1194407.
- ^ Page i in "Preface" to IMS festschrift.