Mathematical methods of statistics

✍ Scribed by Harald Cramer

• Book ID: 127456052
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Series: Princeton paperbacks Princeton landmarks in mathematics and physics
• Category: Library
• City: Princeton
• ISBN-13: 9780691005478

✦ Synopsis

In this classic of statistical mathematical theory, Harald Cramér joins the two major lines of development in the field: while British and American statisticians were developing the science of statistical inference, French and Russian probabilitists transformed the classical calculus of probability into a rigorous and pure mathematical theory. The result of Cramér's work is a masterly exposition of the mathematical methods of modern statistics that set the standard that others have since sought to follow.

For anyone with a working knowledge of undergraduate mathematics the book is self contained. The first part is an introduction to the fundamental concept of a distribution and of integration with respect to a distribution. The second part contains the general theory of random variables and probability distributions while the third is devoted to the theory of sampling, statistical estimation, and tests of significance.