Probability and Statistical Inference (Paperback, 1)

Notions of probability; expectations of functions of random variables; multivariate random variables; transformations and sampling distributions; notions of stochastic convergence; sufficiency, completeness and ancillarity; point estimation; tests of hypotheses; confidence interval estimation; Bayesian methods; likelihood ratio and other tests; large-sample inference; sample size determination - two-stage procedures. Appendices: abbreviations and notation; celebration of statistics - selected biographical notes; selected statistical tables.