Author: D. R. Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: inference, statistical, principles
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2006-08-21
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0521685672
ISBN-13: 9780521685672

In this definitive book, D. R. Cox gives a comprehensive and balanced appraisal of statistical inference. He develops the key concepts, describing and comparing the main ideas and controversies over foundational issues that have been keenly argued for more than two-hundred years. Continuing a sixty-year career of major contributions to statistical thought, no one is better placed to give this much-needed account of the field. An appendix gives a more personal assessment of the merits of different ideas. The content ranges from the traditional to the contemporary. While specific applications ar

Author: Z. Govindarajulu
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: inference, nonparametric
Number of Pages: 692
Published: 2007-04-27
List price: $134.00
ISBN-10: 981270034X
ISBN-13: 9789812700346

This book provides a solid foundation on nonparametric inference for students taking a graduate course in nonparametric statistics and serves as an easily accessible source for researchers in the area. With the exception of some sections requiring familiarity with measure theory, readers with an advanced calculus background will be comfortable with the material.

Author: B. K. Kale
Publisher: Alpha Science International, Ltd
Keywords: inference, parametric, course, first
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2005-07-15
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 1842652192
ISBN-13: 9781842652190

After a brief historical perspective, A First Course on Parametric Inference, discusses the basic concept of sufficient statistic and the classical approach based on minimum variance unbiased estimator. There is a separate chapter on simultaneous estimation of several parameters. Large sample theory of estimation, based on consistent asymptotically normal estimators obtained by method of moments, percentile and the method of maximum likelihood is also introduced. The tests of hypotheses for finite samples with classical Neyman – Pearson theory is developed pointing out its connection with Ba

Author: Richard T. Cox
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: inference, probable, algebra
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 2001-11-28
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 080186982X
ISBN-13: 9780801869822

In Algebra of Probable Inference, Richard T. Cox develops and demonstrates that probability theory is the only theory of inductive inference that abides by logical consistency. Cox does so through a functional derivation of probability theory as the unique extension of Boolean Algebra thereby establishing, for the first time, the legitimacy of probability theory as formalized by Laplace in the 18th century. Perhaps the most significant consequence of Cox’s work is that probability represents a subjective degree of plausible belief relative to a particular system but is a theory that appl

Author: D.A. Sprott
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: science, inference, statistical
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2000-06-22
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 0387950192
ISBN-13: 9780387950198

The aim of this book is to develop an understanding and treatment of the problems of inference associated with experiments in science. Many textbooks treat inference as principally the reduction of the sample information to estimates and their marginal distribution and supposedly optimal properties. In contrast, this book emphasizes techniques for dividing the sample information into various parts addressing the diverse problems of inference that arise from repeatable experiments. An unusually valuable feature of the book is the large number of practical examples, many of which use data taken

Author: Vijay K. Rohatgi
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: inference, statistical
Number of Pages: 956
Published: 2003-08-05
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0486428125
ISBN-13: 9780486428123

This unified treatment of probability and statistics examines discrete and continuous models, functions of random variables and random vectors, large-sample theory, general methods of point and interval estimation and testing hypotheses, plus analysis of data and variance. Hundreds of problems (some with solutions), examples, and diagrams. 1984 edition. Includes 144 figures and 35 tables.

Author: Henry Ely Kyburg
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Keywords: inference, epistemology
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1982-12
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0816611491
ISBN-13: 9780816611492

Epistemology and Inference was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Henry Kyburg has developed an original and important perspective on probabilistic and statistical inference. Unlike much contemporary writing by philosophers on these topics, Kyburg’s work is informed by issues that have arisen in statistical theory and practice as well as issues familiar to professional philosophers. In two major books and many