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Debabrata Basu

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Indian mathematician

IndiaAcademicsLived 1924 to 2001 · aged 76
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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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1979Fellow of the American Statistical Association
1977Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fulbright Scholarship

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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. In statistical theory, Basu's theorem established the independence of a complete sufficient statistic and an ancillary statistic.

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Lived 1924 to 2001 · aged 76
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