Statistical Inference (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability 7)
Author: Silvey, S.D.
ISBN: 9780412138201
RM1,147.50
Publisher,Chapman and Hall/CRC
Publication Date,
Format,
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No. of Pages, 192
Statistics is a subject with a vast field of application, involving problems which vary widely in their character and complexity.However, in tackling these, we use a relatively small core of central ideas and methods. This book attempts to concentrateattention on these ideas: they are placed in a general settingand illustrated by relatively simple examples, avoidingwherever possible the extraneous difficulties of complicatedmathematical manipulation.In order to compress the central body of ideas into a smallvolume, it is necessary to assume a fair degree of mathematicalsophistication on the part of the reader, and the book is intendedfor students of mathematics who are already accustomed tothinking in rather general terms about spaces and functions
