Statistical Information and Likelihood : a Collection of Critical Essays by Dr. D. Basu /

This book is a collection of essays on the foundations of Statistical Inference. The sequence in which the essays have been arranged makes it possible to read the book as a single contemporay discourse on the likelihood principle, the paradoxes that attend its violation, and the radical deviation fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghosh, J. K.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1988.
Series:Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag) ; 45.
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Table of Contents:
  • Information and Likelihood: Recovery of Ancillary Information. Statistical Information and Likelihood Part I: Principles. Statistical Information and Likelihood Part II: Methods. Statistical Information and Likelihood Part III: Paradoxes. Statistical Information and Likelihood: Discussions. Partial Sufficiency. Elimination of Nuisance Parameters. Sufficiency and Invariance. Ancillary Statistics, Pivotal Quantities and Confidence Statements
  • Survey Sampling and Randomization: Sufficiency in Survey Sampling. Likelihood Principle and Survey Sampling. On the Logical Foundations of Survey Sampling. On the Logical Foundations of Survey Sampling: Discussions. Relevance of Randomization in Data Analysis. The Fisher Randomization Test. The Fisher Randomization Test: Discussions
  • Miscellaneous Notes and Discussions: Likelihood and Partial Likelihood. A Discussion on the Fisher Exact Test. A Discussion on Survey Theory. A Note on Unbiased Estimation. The Concept of Asymptotic Efficiency. Statistics Independent of a Complete Sufficient Statistic. Statistics Independent of a Sufficient Statistic. The Basu Theorems
  • References.