Intended as the text for a sequence of advanced courses, this book covers major topics in theoretical statistics in a concise and rigorous fashion. The discussion assumes a background in advanced calculus, linear algebra, probability, and some analysis and topology. Measure theory is used, but the notation andbasic results needed are presented in an initial chapter on probability, so prior knowledge of these topics is not essential. The presentation is designed to expose students to as many of the central ideas and topics in the discipline as possible, balancing various approaches to inference as well as exact, numerical, and large sample methods. Moving beyond more standard material, the book includes chapters introducing bootstrap methods, nonparametric regression, equivariant estimation, empirical Bayes, and sequential design and analysis. The book has a rich collection of exercises. Several of them illustrate how thetheory developed in the book may be used in various applications. Solutions to many of the exercises are included in an appendix. Comprehensive coverage ofestimation and hypothesis testing, frequentist and Bayesian paradigms, large and small sample methods, and the theory underlying numerical algorithms Detailed and rigorous exposition designed to make the material clear and accessibleRich collection of exercises, many with solutions, pushing students to learn the material well enough to use it in their own research and helping them appreciate its relevance to diverse applications INDICE: Probability and measure.- Exponential families.- Risk, sufficiency, completeness, and ancillarity.- Unbiased estimation.- Curved exponential families.- Conditional distributions.- Bayesian estimation.- Large sample theory.- Estimating equations and maximum likelihood.- Equivariant estimation.- Empirical bayes and shrinkage estimators.- Hypothesis testing.- Optimal tests in higher dimensions.- General linear model.- Bayesian inference: Modeling and computation.- Asymptotic optimality.- Large sample theory for likelihood ratio tests.- Nonparametric regression.- Bootstrap methods.- Sequential methods.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-93838-7
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 538
- Fecha Publicación: 29/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés