Essential Statistical Inference: Theory and Methods (Hardcover, 2013)

_ _Roles of Modeling in Statistical Inference.- Likelihood Construction and Estimation.- Likelihood-Based Tests and Confidence Regions.- Bayesian Inference.- Large Sample Theory: The Basics.- Large Sample Results for Likelihood-Based Methods.- M-Estimation (Estimating Equations).- Hypothesis Tests under Misspecification and Relaxed Assumptions_.- Monte Carlo Simulation Studies_.- Jackknife.- Bootstrap.- Permutation and Rank Tests.- Appendix: Derivative Notation and Formulas.- References.- Author Index.- Example Index_.- R-code Index.- Subject Index.