192 Pages
by
Chapman & Hall
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Statistics is a subject with a vast field of application, involving problems which vary widely in their character and complexity.However, in tackling these, we use a relatively small core of central ideas and methods. This book attempts to concentrateattention on these ideas: they are placed in a general settingand illustrated by relatively simple examples, avoidingwherever possible the extraneous... Read more
Preface, 1: Introduction, 2: Minimum-Variance Unbiased Estimation, 3: The Method of Least Squares, 4: The Method of Maximum Likelihood, 5: Confidence Sets, 6: Hypothesis Testing, 7: The Likelihood-Ratio Test and Alternative ‘Large-Sample’ Equivalents of it, 8: Sequential Tests, 9: Non-Parametric Methods, 10: The Bayesian Approach, 11: An Introduction to Decision Theory, Appendix A Some Matrix Results, Appendix B The Linear Hypothesis, References, Index
Biography
S.D. Silvey
"...by far the best book on its topic."
-International Statistical Reveiw
