Principles of Statistical Inference

Informationen zum Autor D. R. Cox is one of the world's preeminent statisticians. Author or co-author of sixteen books and roughly 250 papers, his work on the proportional hazards regression model is one of the most-cited and most influential papers in modern statistics. Klappentext A comprehensive, balanced account of the theory of statistical inference, its main ideas and controversies. Zusammenfassung No one is better placed than D. R. Cox to give the comprehensive! balanced account of the theory of statistical inference! its main ideas and controversies! that is now needed. This book is for every serious user or student of statistics - for anyone serious about the scientific understanding of uncertainty. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Some concepts and simple applications; 3. Significance tests; 4. More complicated situations; 5. Some interpretational issues; 6. Asymptotic theory; 7. Further aspects of maximum likelihood; 8. Additional objectives; 9. Randomization-based analysis; Appendix A. A brief history; Appendix B. A personal view; References; Author index; Index.

Product details

• Authors: D. R. Cox, D.R. Cox
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2006
• EAN: 9780521866736
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86673-6
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics, Epidemiology and Medical statistics