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Preface
1 Probability and Distributions
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Set Theory
1.3 The Probability Set Function
1.4 Conditional Probability and Independence
1.5 Random Variables
1.6 Discrete Random Variables
1.6.1 Transformations
1.7 Continuous RandomVariables
1.7.1 Transformations
1.8 Expectation of a Random Variable
1.9 Some Special Expectations
1.10 Important Inequalities
2 Multivariate Distributions
2.1 Distributions of Two Random Variables
2.1.1 Expectation
2.2 Transformations: Bivariate Random Variables
2.3 Conditional Distributions and Expectations
2.4 The Correlation Coefficient
2.5 Independent Random Variables
2.6 Extension to Several Random Variables
2.6.1 *Multivariate Variance-Covariance Matrix
2.7 Transformations for Several Random Variables
2.8 Linear Combinations of Random Variables
3 Some Special Distributions
3.1 The Binomial and Related Distributions
3.2 The Poisson Distribution
3.3 The Γ, χ2, and β Distributions
3.4 The Normal Distribution
3.4.1 Contaminated Normals
3.5 The Multivariate Normal Distribution
3.5.1 *Applications
3.6 t- and F-Distributions
3.6.1 The t-distribution
3.6.2 The F-distribution
3.6.3 Student’s Theorem
3.7 Mixture Distributions
4 Some Elementary Statistical Inferences
4.1 Sampling and Statistics
4.1.1 HistogramEstimates of pmfs and pdfs
4.2 Confidence Intervals
4.2.1 Confidence Intervals for Difierence in Means
4.2.2 Confidence Interval for Difference in Proportions
4.3 Confidence Intervals for Parameters of Discrete Distributions
4.4 Order Statistics
4.4.1 Quantiles
4.4.2 Confidence Intervals for Quantiles
4.5 Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
4.6 Additional Comments About Statistical Tests
4.7 Chi-Square Tests
4.8 The Method of Monte Carlo
4.8.1 Accept–Reject Generation Algorithm
4.9 Bootstrap Procedures
4.9.1 Percentile Bootstrap Confidence Intervals
4.9.2 Bootstrap Testing Procedures
4.10 *Tolerance Limits for Distributions
5 Consistency and Limiting Distributions
5.1 Convergence in Probability
5.2 Convergence in Distribution
5.2.1 Bounded in Probability
5.2.2 Δ-Method
5.2.3 Moment Generating Function Technique
5.3 Central Limit Theorem
5.4 *Extensions to Multivariate Distributions
6 Maximum Likelihood Methods
6.1 Maximum Likelihood Estimation
6.2 Rao–Cramér Lower Bound and Efficiency
6.3 Maximum Likelihood Tests
6.4 Multiparameter Case: Estimation
6.5 Multiparameter Case: Testing
6.6 The EM Algorithm
7 Sufficiency
7.1 Measures of Quality of Estimators
7.2 A Sufficient Statistic for a Parameter
7.3 Properties of a Sufficient Statistic
7.4 Completeness and Uniqueness
7.5 The Exponential Class of Distributions
7.6 Functions of a Parameter
7.7 The Case of Several Parameters
7.8 Minimal Sufficiency and Ancillary Statistics
7.9 Sufficiency, Completeness, and Independence
8 Optimal Tests of Hypotheses
8.1 Most Powerful Tests
8.2 Uniformly Most Powerful Tests
8.3 Likelihood Ratio Tests
8.4 The Sequential Probability Ratio Test
8.5 Minimax and Classification Procedures
8.5.1 Minimax Procedures
8.5.2 Classification
9 Inferences About Normal Models
9.1 Quadratic Forms
9.2 One-Way ANOVA
9.3 Noncentral X[sup(2)] and F-Distributions
9.4 Multiple Comparisons
9.5 The Analysis of Variance
9.6 A Regression Problem
9.7 A Test of Independence
9.8 The Distributions of Certain Quadratic Forms
9.9 The Independence of Certain Quadratic Forms
10 Nonparametric and Robust Statistics
10.1 Location Models
10.2 Sample Median and the Sign Test
10.2.1 Asymptotic Relative Efficiency
10.2.2 Estimating Equations Based on the Sign Test
10.2.3 Confidence Interval for the Median
10.3 Signed-Rank Wilcoxon
10.3.1 Asymptotic Relative Efficiency
10.3.2 Estimating Equations Based on Signed-Rank Wilcoxon
10.3.3 Confidence Interval for the Median
10.4 Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon Procedure
10.4.1 Asymptotic Relative Efficiency
10.4.2 Estimating Equations Based on the Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon
10.4.3 Confidence Interval for the Shift Parameter Δ
10.5 General Rank Scores
10.5.1 Efficacy
10.5.2 Estimating Equations Based on General Scores
10.5.3 Optimization: Best Estimates
10.6 Adaptive Procedures
10.7 Simple Linear Model
10.8 Measures of Association
10.8.1 Kendall’s T
10.8.2 Spearman’s Rho
10.9 Robust Concepts
10.9.1 Location Model
10.9.2 Linear Model
11 Bayesian Statistics
11.1 Subjective Probability
11.2 Bayesian Procedures
11.2.1 Prior and Posterior Distributions
11.2.2 Bayesian Point Estimation
11.2.3 Bayesian Interval Estimation
11.2.4 Bayesian Testing Procedures
11.2.5 Bayesian Sequential Procedures
11.3 More Bayesian Terminology and Ideas
11.4 Gibbs Sampler
11.5 Modern Bayesian Methods
11.5.1 Empirical Bayes
A: Mathematical Comments
A.1 Regularity Conditions
A.2 Sequences
B: R Functions
C: Tables of Distributions
D: Lists of Common Distributions
E: References
F: Answers to Selected Exercises
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