Statistical inference

Basu, Ayanendranath.

Statistical inference the minimum distance approach / [electronic resource] : Ayanendranath Basu, Hiroyuki Shioya, Chanseok Park. - Boca Raton, Fla. : Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2011. - xix, 409 p. : ill. - Monographs on statistics and applied probability ; 120 . - Monographs on statistics and applied probability ; 120. .

"A Chapman & Hall book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-402) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Statistical distances -- 3. Continuous models -- 4. Measures of robustness and computational issues -- 5. The hypothesis testing problem -- 6. Techniques for inlier modification -- 7. Weighted likelihood estimation -- 8. Multinomial goodness-of-fit testing -- 9. The density power divergence -- 10. Other applications -- 11. Distance measures in information and engineering -- 12. Applications to other models.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9781420099669 (ebook : PDF)


Mathematical statistics.


Electronic books.