Statistical Inference - Hardcover

Casella, George; Berger, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534243126 ISBN 13: 9780534243128

Publisher: Duxbury Press, 2001

Synopsis

This book builds theoretical statistics from the first principles of probability theory. Starting from the basics of probability, the authors develop the theory of statistical inference using techniques, definitions, and concepts that are statistical and are natural extensions and consequences of previous concepts. Intended for first-year graduate students, this book can be used for students majoring in statistics who have a solid mathematics background. It can also be used in a way that stresses the more practical uses of statistical theory, being more concerned with understanding basic statistical concepts and deriving reasonable statistical procedures for a variety of situations, and less concerned with formal optimality investigations.

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Review

"Statistical Inference is a delightfully modern text on statistical theory and deserves serious consideration from every teacher of a graduate- or advanced undergraduate-level first course in statistical theory. . . Chapters 1-5 provide plenty of interesting examples illustrating either the basic concepts of probability or the basic techniques of finding distribution. . . The book has unique features [throughout Chapters 6-12] for example, I have never seen in any comparable text such extensive discussion of ancillary statistics [Ch. 6], including Basu's theorem, dealing with the independence of complete sufficient statistics and ancillary statistics. Basu's theorem is such a useful tool that it should be available to every graduate student of statistics. . . The derivation of the analysis of variance (ANOVA)F test in Chapter 11 via the union-intersection principle is very nice. . . Chapter 12 contains, in addition to the standard regression model, errors-in-variables models. This topic will be of considerable importance in the years ahead, and the authors should be thanked for giving the reader an introduction to it. . . Another nice feature is the Miscellanea Section at the end of nearly every chapter. This gives the serious student an opportunity to go beyond the basic material of the text and look at some of the more advanced work on the topics, thereby developing a much better feel for the subject."

Synopsis

Intended for first-year graduate students specializing in statistics, this textbook seeks to build theoretical statistics from the first principles of probability theory. It covers the basics of probability theory and details major statistical principles, including sufficiency, likelihood, and invariance. It then outlines the methods of inference,

Edition details

• Publisher: Duxbury Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534243126
• ISBN 13: 9780534243128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 688