Debabrata Basu

Debabrata Basu was an Indian statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundationsof 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. Debabrata Basu was born on 5 July 1924 in Dacca, Bengal, unpartitioned India, now Dhaka, Bangladesh. His father, N. M. Basu, was a mathematician specialising in number theory.

Young Basu studied mathematics at Dacca University. After getting his master's degree from Dacca University, Basu taught there from 1947 to 1948.