Debabrata Basu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Debabrata Basu

Indian-American mathematician

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1924

Place of Birth: Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Date of Death: 24-Mar-2001

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, statistician

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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