Selected Works of Debabrata Basu

This book contains a little more than 20 of Debabrata Basu's? most significant articles and writings. Debabrata Basu is internationally? known for his highly influential and fundamental contributions? to the foundations of statistics, survey sampling, sufficiency,? and invariance. The major theorem bearing his name has had numerous? applications to statistics and probability. The articles in this volume? are reprints of the original articles, in a chronological order. The? book also contains eleven commentaries written by some of the most? distinguished scholars in the area of foundations and statistical? inference. These commentaries are by George Casella and V. Gopal,? Phil Dawid, Tom DiCiccio and Alastair Young, Malay Ghosh, Jay kadane,? Glen Meeden, Robert Serfling, Jayaram Sethuraman, Terry Speed, and? Alan Welsh.

Anirban DasGupta is Professor of Statistics at Purdue University. He is an Associate Editor of the Annals of Statistics, Statistics Surveys, and Metrika. He has also served in the editorial boards of the Journal of American Statistical Association, International Statistical Review, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, and Sankhya. He is the author of Springer's Asymptotic Theory of Statistics and Probability and of Fundamentals of Probability, A First Course. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and is the author of 105 articles.