Table of Contents

Preface, 1: Introduction, 2: Minimum-Variance Unbiased Estimation, 3: The Method of Least Squares, 4: The Method of Maximum Likelihood, 5: Confidence Sets, 6: Hypothesis Testing, 7: The Likelihood-Ratio Test and Alternative ‘Large-Sample’ Equivalents of it, 8: Sequential Tests, 9: Non-Parametric Methods, 10: The Bayesian Approach, 11: An Introduction to Decision Theory, Appendix A Some Matrix Results, Appendix B The Linear Hypothesis, References, Index

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S.D. Silvey

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