Debabrata Basu

Debabrata Basu was an Indian statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics. Basu invented simple examples that displayed some difficulties of likelihoodbased statistics and frequentist statistics Basus paradoxes were especially important in the development of survey sampling. In statistical theory, Basus theorem established the independence of a complete sufficient statistic and an ancillary statistic.

Debabrata Basu was born in Dacca, Bengal, unpartitioned India, now Dhaka, Bangladesh. His father, N. M. Basu, was a mathematician specialising in number theory. Young Basu studied mathematics at Dacca University. He took a course in statistics as part of the undergraduate honours programme in Mathematics but his ambition was to become a pure mathematician. After getting his masters degree from Dacca University, Basu taught there from 1947 to 1948.

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