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Debabrata Basu
Indian mathematician · India · On the map · Academics · Lived 1924 to 2001 · aged 76
Debabrata Basu 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.
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In statistical theory, Basu's theorem established the independence of a complete sufficient statistic and an ancillary statistic.
Country
India
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1924 to 2001 · aged 76
