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Statistical inference

S.D. Silvey

(Monographs on statistics and applied probability, 7)

Chapman and Hall, 1975

[1st ed.], reprinted with corrections

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Originally published: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1970

Bibliography: p. 188-189

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 difficulties of complicatedmathematical manipulation.In order to compress the central body of ideas into a smallvolume, it is necessary to assume a fair degree of mathematicalsophistication on the part of the reader, and the book is intendedfor students of mathematics who are already accustomed tothinking in rather general terms about spaces and functions

Table of Contents

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

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