Table of Contents

Basic Concepts in Probability; Convergence and the Law of Large Numbers; Probability Distributions; Information; Decision Theory; Theory of Estimators; Point Estimation in Practice; Interval Estimation; Test of Hypotheses; Goodness-of-Fit Tests.

Reviews

"I highly recommend that this book be kept on every desk -- for consultation when a question arises, for browsing when in the mood to learn something interesting, and for a straight read-though to get a grounding in the classical theory of statistics from an experimental physicist's perspective."CERN Courier