Basu thus had a good understanding of the decision-theoretic approach to statistics of Neyman, Pearson and Wald. In fact, Basu is described as having returned from Berkeley to India as a ``complete Neyman Pearsonian'' by J. K. Ghosh. Basu met Ronald Fisher in the winter of 1954--1955; he wrote in 1988, ``With his reference set argument, Sir Ronald was trying to find a via media between the two poles of Statistics --
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