Mathematical Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected Topics, Volume II, Volume 2

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CRC Press, Nov 4, 2015 - Business & Economics - 485 pages
Mathematical Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected Topics, Volume II presents important statistical concepts, methods, and tools not covered in the authors' previous volume. This second volume focuses on inference in non- and semiparametric models. It not only reexamines the procedures introduced in the first volume from a more sophisticated point o
 

Contents

PREFACE TO THE 2016 EDITION
INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLES
TOOLS FOR ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS
DISTRIBUTIONFREE UNBIASED AND EQUIVARIANT PROCEDURES
INFERENCE IN SEMIPARAMETRIC MODELS
MONTE CARLO METHODS
NONPARAMETRIC INFERENCE FOR FUNCTIONS OF ONE VARIABLE
PREDICTION AND MACHINE LEARNING
SOME AUXILIARY RESULTS
E SOLUTIONS FOR VOLUME II
REFERENCES
SUBJECT INDEX
AUTHOR INDEX
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Peter J. Bickel is a professor emeritus in the Department of Statistics and a professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bickel is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, and president of the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and ETH Zurich.

Kjell A. Doksum is a senior scientist in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research encompasses the estimation of nonparametric regression and correlation curves, inference for global measures of association in semiparametric and nonparametric settings, the estimation of regression quantiles, statistical modeling and analysis of HIV data, the analysis of financial data, and Bayesian nonparametric inference.

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