Description

About The Book

The second edition now has an updated statistical inference section (chapters 8 to 13). Many revisions have been made, the references have been updated, and many new problems and worked examples have been added

Table Of Contents

Probability
·    Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions
·    Moments and Generating Functions
·    Multiple Random Variables
·    Some Special Distributions
·    Limit Theorems
·    Sample Moments and Their Distributions
·    Parametric Point Estimation
·    Neyman-Pearson Theory of Testing of Hypotheses
·    Some Further Results of Hypothesis Testing
·    Confidence Estimation
·    General Linear Hypothesis
·    Nonparametric Statistical Inference
·    References
·    Frequently Used Symbols and Abbreviations
·    Statistical Tables
Answers to Selected Problems
Indexes

Special Features

This book is intended for Upper Seniors and Beginning Graduate Students in Mathematics, as well as Students in Physics and Engineering with strong mathematical backgrounds. It was designed for a three-quarter course meeting four hours per week or a two-semester course meeting three hours per week.