MTU Cork Library Catalogue

Mathematical statistics / Samuel S. Wilks.

By: Wilks, S. S. (Samuel Stanley), 1906-1964.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Wiley publication in mathematical statistics.Publisher: New York : Wiley, 1962Description: 644 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.Subject(s): Mathematical statisticsDDC classification: 519.9
Contents:
Preliminaries -- Distribution functions -- Mean values and moments of random variables -- Sequences of random variables -- Characteristic functions and generating functions -- Some special discrete distributions -- Some special continuous distributions -- Sampling theory -- Asymptotic sampling theory for large samples -- Linear statistical estimation -- Nonparametric statistical estimation -- Parametric statistical estimation -- Testing parametric statistical hypotheses -- Testing nonparametric statistical hypotheses Sequential statistical analysis -- Statistical decision functions -- Time series -- Multivariate statistical theory.

"An early version of some of the material was issued in 1943."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-621) and indexes.

Preliminaries -- Distribution functions -- Mean values and moments of random variables -- Sequences of random variables -- Characteristic functions and generating functions -- Some special discrete distributions -- Some special continuous distributions -- Sampling theory -- Asymptotic sampling theory for large samples -- Linear statistical estimation -- Nonparametric statistical estimation -- Parametric statistical estimation -- Testing parametric statistical hypotheses -- Testing nonparametric statistical hypotheses Sequential statistical analysis -- Statistical decision functions -- Time series -- Multivariate statistical theory.

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