Debabrata Basu
Debabrata Basu ( Bengali দেবব্রত বসু Debabrata Basu ; * July 5, 1924 in Dhaka ; † March 24, 2001 in Kolkata , West Bengal ) was an Indian mathematical statistician.
Life
Basu studied mathematics at Dhaka University in what is now Bangladesh and taught there in 1947/48 after graduating. Due to the political unrest during India's transition to independence, he left his homeland and in 1950 became a member of the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata , where he conducted research under CR Rao . He was heavily influenced by Abraham Wald , who attended the institute in 1950. In 1953 he received his doctorate at the University of Calcutta and went to Berkeley as a Fulbright scholar, where he became a student of Jerzy Neyman . After a lecture by Ronald Fisher at the Kolkata Institute in 1955 on statistical paradoxes, he began to turn to Bayesian statistics . In the 1960s he emerged as a critic of classic inference statistics. He taught at the Indian Statistical Institute and from 1975 until his retirement in 1990 at the University of Florida .
In 1955 he proved the Basu Theorems on statistical independence.
Debabrata Basu died of Alzheimer's disease .
Fonts
- Statistical information and likelihood: A collection of critical essays by Dr. D. Basu. Lecture Notes in Statistics 45, 1988 (Ed. JK Ghosh)
- Selected Works of Debabarata Basu, Springer 2011 (Ed. Anirban DasGupta)
literature
- JK Ghosh: Debabrata Basu: A Brief Life-Sketch, Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series A, Volume 64, 2002, first page, JSTOR
Web links
- Obituary in Department of Statistics Florida State University, Vol. 5, Fall 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moni Basu (daughter): Baba's legacy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Basu, Debabrata |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian mathematical statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dhaka |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 2001 |
| Place of death | Kolkata , West Bengal |