Mathematical Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected Topics, Volume I, Second Edition, Edition 2

Peter J. Bickel · Kjell A. Doksum

Mar 2015 · CRC Press

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Mathematical Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected Topics, Volume I, Second Edition presents fundamental, classical statistical concepts at the doctorate level. It covers estimation, prediction, testing, confidence sets, Bayesian analysis, and the general approach of decision theory. This edition gives careful proofs of major results and explains ho

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Peter J. Bickel is a professor emeritus in the Department of Statistics and a professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bickel is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, and president of the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and ETH Zurich.

Kjell A. Doksum is a senior scientist in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research encompasses the estimation of nonparametric regression and correlation curves, inference for global measures of association in semiparametric and nonparametric settings, the estimation of regression quantiles, statistical modeling and analysis of HIV data, the analysis of financial data, and Bayesian nonparametric inference.