Debabrata Basu

Debabrata Basu (Bengali: দেবব্রত বসু) (5 July 1924 – 24 March 2001) was a mathematical 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 compl... More

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  • Jul 5, 1924

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  • Mar 24, 2001 (age 76 years)

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