Statistical Inference, 9780198572268
Hardcover
Understand statistical techniques, rigorously explained, accessible to undergraduates.

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  • Hardcover

    342 pages

  • Release Date

    20 June 2002

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Summary

Unveiling Insights: A Practical Guide to Statistical Inference

Adopting a broad view of statistical inference, this text concentrates on what various techniques do, with mathematical proofs kept to a minimum. The approach is rigorous, but will be accessible to final year undergraduates.

Classical approaches to point estimation, hypothesis testing and interval estimation are all covered thoroughly, with recent developments outlined. Separate chapters are devoted to Bayesian i…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198572268
ISBN-10:0198572263
Series:Oxford Science Publications
Author:Ian Jolliffe, Paul Garthwaite, Byron Jones
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:342
Edition:2nd
Release Date:20 June 2002
Weight:601g
Dimensions:242mm x 161mm x 24mm
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Critics Review

This book is easy to read and is designed to be an advanced level textbook for senior undergraduate students … a useful, comprehensive reference for practising statisticians.

… clearly structured and reasonably compact … should be useful for reference purposes. There is a carefully chosen bibliography and, whilst the subject matter is quite advanced, it is coherently argued throughout and can be thoroughly recommended. The Mathematical Gazette This book is easy to read and is designed to be an advanced level textbook for senior undergraduate students … a useful, comprehensive reference for practising statisticians. Zentralblatt MATH

About The Author

Ian Jolliffe

Paul Garthwaite is in the Department of Statistics, Open University, UK.

Ian Jolliffe is a Professor of Statistics, University of Aberdeen.

Byron Jones is a Director, Research Statistics Unit, GlaxoSmithKline, UK.

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