Debabrata Basu

Who was 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 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.

Born in Dacca, Bengal, in unpartitioned India, Basu was associated with the Indian Statistical Institute in India, and Florida State University in the United States.