Table of Contents

Contents.- Preface.- Introduction.- The Statistical Approach.- Estimation.- Interval Estimation.- Hypothesis Testing.- Maximum Likelihood: Basic Results.- Linear Model.- Other Estimation Methods.- Decision Theory.- Sufficiency.- Conditionality.- Statistical Principles.- The Practice of Statistics.- Bayesian Statistics: Philosophy and Theory.- Priors.- Bayesian Statistics: Computation.- Bayesian Inference: Miscellaneous.- Sufficiency.- A Probability and Mathematical Concepts.

About the Author

Charles A. Rohde received his PhD at N.C. State in 1964 and has been at Johns Hopkins since then. He served as Department Chair for the Department of Biostatistics from 1981 to 1996. Professor Rohde's areas of research have included generalized inverses of matrices, linear models and pure likelihood methods.