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For graduate-level courses in Statistical Inference or Theoretical Statistics in departments of Statistics, Bio-Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. An updated printing! In response to feedback from faculty and students, some sections within the book have been rewritten. Also, a number of corrections have been made, further improving the accuracy of this outstanding textbook.This updated classic, time-honored introduction to the theory and practice of statistics modeling and inference reflects the changing focus of contemporary Statistics. Coverage begins with the more general nonparametric point of view and then looks at parametric models as submodels of the nonparametric ones which can be described smoothly by Euclidean parameters. Although some computational issues are discussed, this is very much a book on theory. It relates theory to conceptual and technical issues encou

576 pages, Paperback

First published February 4, 1983

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June 25, 2015
Підручник зі статистики, який можна сміливо називати "Статистика 2.0". Виклад доволі жорсткий - з рясним і щедрим використанням математичного апарату, але доведення - улюблена річ для книжок по статистиці від математиків - зведена до мінімуму. З іншого боку, автори не "розжовують" базові поняття статистики і теорії імовірностей (як може здатися з першого розділу), а переходять до доволі прикладних і важливих питань.
Загалом, в цій книзі дуже коротко і доступно описано суть методу оцінки максимуму правдоподібності (maximum likelihood), оцінку гіпотез та довірчі інтервали пов’язано між собою (чого роблять не всі автори), а також продемонстровано проблему потужності критеріїв. Тобто книжка може дати багато цікавих деталей та дрібниць для тих, хто вже має базові знання та застосовував їх на практиці.
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October 23, 2022
It's only worth reading if everything the author claim is proven. This book is a little out of date, which is okay. It's not quite organized or well-formatted, which is tolerable.

The major issue I have with it is not rigorously proving everything. The statistical tools introduced are lackluster, while the subjects it tries to tackle are too difficult. The authors need to put more effort to introduce more tools instead of more difficult problems. This is the point of a "textbook".

By reading some exercise problems, I have a feeling that the author is teaching the readers how to cut down an oak tree with a shaver blade, instead of giving the reader a chainsaw.
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September 12, 2020
Useful as a reference. Some theorems are not proved rigorously (since it would in some cases require more advanced measure theoretic probability theory).
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