Introductory statistical inference / Nitis Mukhopadhyay.

This gracefully organized text reveals the rigorous theory of probability and statistical inference in the style of a tutorial, using worked examples, exercises, figures, tables, and computer simulations to develop and illustrate concepts. Drills and boxed summaries emphasize and reinforce important...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Mukhopadhyay, Nitis, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC, [2006]
Series:Statistics, textbooks and monographs.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Probability and distributions
  • 2. Moments and generating functions
  • 3. Multivariate random variables
  • 4. Sampling distribution
  • 5. Notions of convergence
  • 6. Sufficiency, completeness, and ancillarity
  • 7. Point estimation
  • 8. Tests of hypotheses
  • 9. Confidence intervals
  • 10. Bayesian methods
  • 11. Likelihood ratio and other tests
  • 12. Large-sample methods
  • 13. Abbreviations, historical notes, and tables.