Optimal Statistical Decisions
WCL Edition
Published on 28. May 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
490 pages
978-0-471-68029-1 (ISBN)
Description
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Tables: 50 B&W, 0 Color; Graphs: 50 B&W, 0 Color
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
731 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-68029-1 (9780471680291)
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Person
Morris DeGroot (now deceased) was a great statistician and gentleman of the 20th Century. Says friend and coworker Joseph B. ("Jay") Kadane of DeGroot in the Foreword, "He was an institutional builder, as founder of the Statistics Department at Carnegie Mellon University and as first Executive Editor of Statistical Science. He was a wonderful colleague and friend, always ready for a chat about principles, a research problem, a departmental problem, a reference, or personal advice."
Content
Foreword.
Preface.
PART ONE. SURVEY OF PROBABILITY THEORY.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. Experiments, Sample Spaces, and Probability.
Chapter 3. Random Variables, Random Vectors, and Distributions Functions.
Chapter 4. Some Special Univariate Distributions.
Chapter 5. Some Special Multivariate Distributions.
PART TWO. SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY AND UTILITY.
Chapter 6. Subjective Probability.
Chapter 7. Utility.
PART THREE. STATISTICAL DECISION PROBLEMS.
Chapter 8. Decision Problems.
Chapter 9. Conjugate Prior Distributions.
Chapter 10. Limiting Posterior Distributions.
Chapter 11. Estimation, Testing Hypotheses, and linear Statistical Models.
PART FOUR. SEQUENTIAL DECISIONS.
Chapter 12. Sequential Sampling.
Chapter 13. Optimal Stopping.
Chapter 14. Sequential Choice of Experiments.
References.
Supplementary Bibliography.
Name Index.
Subject Index.