From Finite Sample to Asymptotic Methods in Statistics: 29 (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics, Series Number 29) - Hardcover

Sen, Pranab K.; Singer, Julio M.; Pedroso De Lima, Antonio C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521877229 ISBN 13: 9780521877220

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

A broad view of exact statistical inference and the development of asymptotic statistical inference.

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About the Authors

Pranab K. Sen is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author or co-author of numerous textbooks in statistics and biostatistics, and editor or co-editor of numerous volumes in the same field. He has more than 600 publications in leading statistics journals and has supervised 83 doctoral students. Sen is a Fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. In 2002 he was Senior Noether Awardee for his lifelong contributions to nonparametrics and received the Commemoration Medal from the Czech Union of Physicists and Mathematicians in 1998.

Julio M. Singer is a Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and is the co-director of the university's Center for Applied Statistics. Professor Singer is the co-author of books on categorical data and large sample theory and has publications in both methodological and applications-oriented journals. He was the 1993 James E. Grizzle Distinguished Alumnus in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He supervised several graduate students and contributed to the development of the doctoral program in statistics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Antonio C. Pedroso-de-Lima is an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and is the co-director of the university's Center for Applied Statistics. He received his doctoral degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the co-author of a book on introductory statistics, and his research has been published in theoretical, methodological, and applications-oriented journals. Professor Pedroso-de-Lima has advised a number of master's degree and doctoral students in the graduate program in statistics at the University of São Paulo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521877229
• ISBN 13: 9780521877220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 398