Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (August 1, 2021) © 2019

  • Robert V. Hogg University of Iowa
  • Joseph W. McKean
  • Allen T. Craig University of Iowa
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Introduction to Mathematical Statistics gives you comprehensive coverage with a proven approach, promoting understanding with numerous illustrative examples and exercises. Classical statistical inference procedures in estimation and testing are explored extensively, and its flexible organization makes it ideal for a range of mathematical statistics courses. In the 8th Edition, substantial revisions help you appreciate the connection between statistical theory and statistical practice, while other changes enhance the development and discussion of the statistical theory presented. Use of statistical software R is expanded throughout. Many additional real data sets illustrate statistical methods or compare methods, and are also available in the free R package hmcpkg. Several important topics have been added including Tukey's multiple comparison procedure in Chapter 9, confidence intervals for the correlation coefficients found in Chapters 9 and 10, and much more.

  • (Note: Sections marked with an asterisk * are optional.)
  1. Probability and Distributions
    • 1.1 Introduction
    • 1.2 Sets
    • 1.3 The Probability Set Function
    • 1.4 Conditional Probability and Independence
    • 1.5 Random Variables
    • 1.6 Discrete Random Variables
    • 1.7 Continuous Random Variables
    • 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
    • 2.2 Transformations: Bivariate Random Variables
    • 2.3 Conditional Distributions and Expectations
    • 2.4 Independent Random Variables
    • 2.5 The Correlation Coefficient
    • 2.6 Extension to Several Random Variables
    • 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
    • 3.5 The Multivariate Normal Distribution
    • 3.6 t- and F-Distributions
    • 3.7 Mixture Distributions*
  4. Some Elementary Statistical Inferences
    • 4.1 Sampling and Statistics
    • 4.2 Confidence Intervals
    • 4.3 ∗Confidence Intervals for Parameters of Discrete Distributions
    • 4.4 Order Statistics
    • 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
    • 4.9 Bootstrap Procedures
    • 4.10 Tolerance Limits for Distributions*
  5. Consistency and Limiting Distributions
    • 5.1 Convergence in Probability
    • 5.2 Convergence in Distribution
    • 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
    • 8.3.2 Likelihood Ratio Tests for Testing Variances of Normal Distributions
    • 8.4 The Sequential Probability Ratio Test*
    • 8.5 Minimax and Classification Procedures*
  9. Inferences About Normal Linear Models
    • 9.1 Introduction
    • 9.2 One-Way ANOVA
    • 9.3 Noncentral χ2 and F-Distributions
    • 9.4 Multiple Comparisons
    • 9.5 Two-Way ANOVA
    • 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
    • 10.3 Signed-Rank Wilcoxon
    • 10.4 Mann—Whitney—Wilcoxon Procedure
    • 10.5 General Rank Scores*
    • 10.6 Adaptive Procedures*
    • 10.7 Simple Linear Model
    • 10.8 Measures of Association
    • 10.9 Robust Concepts
  11. Bayesian Statistics
    • 11.1 Bayesian Procedures
    • 11.2 More Bayesian Terminology and Ideas
    • 11.3 Gibbs Sampler
    • 11.4 Modern Bayesian Methods

Appendices:

  1. Mathematical Comments
    • A.1 Regularity Conditions
    • A.2 Sequences
  2. R Primer
    • B.1 Basics
    • B.2 Probability Distributions
    • B.3 R Functions
    • B.4 Loops
    • B.5 Input and Output
    • B.6 Packages
  3. Lists of Common Distributions
  4. Table of Distributions
  5. References
  6. Answers to Selected Exercises

Index

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