03712mam a2200349 a 4500 3242674 BD-DhUL 20140907124631.0 020206r20021965nyu b 001 0 eng d 0471218758 (ppb.) (OCoLC)ocm49307460 (NNC)3242674 HLS HLS NNC OrLoB-B BD-DhUL QA276 .R36 2002 519.1 RAL Rao, C. Radhakrishna (Calyampudi Radhakrishna), 1920- Linear statistical inference and its applications / C. Radhakrishna Rao. 2nd ed. (ppb.) New York : Wiley, 2002. xx, 625 p. ; 24 cm. Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics "A Wiley-Interscience publication." This paperback edition is a reprint of 1965 edition published by Wiley. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Ch. 1. Algebra of Vectors and Matrices. 1a. Vector Spaces. 1b. Theory of Matrices and Determinants. 1c. Eigenvalues and Reduction of Matrices. 1d. Convex Sets in Vector Spaces. 1e. Inequalities. 1f. Extrema of Quadratic Forms -- Ch. 2. Probability Theory, Tools and Techniques. 2a. Calculus of Probability. 2b. Mathematical Expectation and Moments of Random Variables. 2c. Limit Theorems. 2d. Family of Probability Measures and Problems of Statistics -- Ch. 3. Continuous Probability Models. 3a. Univariate Models. 3b. Sampling Distributions. 3c. Symmetric Normal Distribution. 3d. Bivariate Normal Distribution -- Ch. 4. The Theory of Least Squares and Analysis of Variance. 4a. Theory of Least Squares (Linear Estimation). 4b. Tests of Hypotheses and Interval Estimation. 4c. Problems of a Single Sample. 4d. One-Way Classified Data. 4e. Two-Way Classified Data. 4f. A General Model for Two-Way Data and Variance Components. 4g. The Theory and Application of Statistical Regression. 4h. The General Problem of Least Squares with Two Sets of Parameters. 4i. Unified Theory of Linear Estimation. 4j. Estimation of Variance Components. 4k. Biased Estimation in Linear Models -- Ch. 5. Criteria and Methods of Estimation. 5a. Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation. 5b. General Procedures. 5c. Criteria of Estimation in Large Samples. 5d. Some Methods of Estimation in Large Samples. 5e. Estimation of the Multinomial Distribution. 5f. Estimation of Parameters in the General Case. 5g. The Method of Scoring for the Estimation of Parameters -- Ch. 6. Large Sample Theory and Methods. 6a. Some Basic Results. 6b. Chi-Square Tests for the Multinomial Distribution. 6c. Tests Relating to Independent Samples from Multinomial Distributions. 6d. Contingency Tables. 6e. Some General Classes of Large Sample Tests. 6f. Order Statistics. 6g. Transformation of Statistics. 6h. Standard Errors of Moments and Related Statistics -- Ch. 7. Theory of Statistical Inference. 7a. Testing of Statistical Hypotheses. 7b. Confidence Intervals. 7c. Sequential Analysis. 7d. Problem of Identification - Decision Theory. 7e. Nonparametric Inference. 7f. Ancillary Information -- Ch. 8. Multivariate Analysis. 8a. Multivariate Normal Distribution. 8b. Wishart Distribution. 8c. Analysis of Dispersion. 8d. Some Applications of Multivariate Tests. 8e. Discriminatory Analysis (Identification). 8f. Relation between Sets of Variates. 8g. Orthonormal Basis of a Random Variable. Mathematical statistics. Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics. AUTH TOC ddc BK 8521 8521 0 0 ddc 0 519_100000000000000_RAL 0 NFIC 15063 DUSL DUSL GEN 2004-02-10 519.1 RAL 400954 2014-09-07 13 2014-09-07 BK 0 0 ddc 0 519_100000000000000_RAL 0 NFIC 15064 DUSL DUSL GEN 2004-02-10 519.1 RAL 413400 2014-09-07 13 2014-09-07 BK 0 0 ddc 0 519_100000000000000_RAL 0 NFIC 15065 DUSL DUSL GEN 2004-02-10 519.1 RAL 413399 2014-09-07 12 2014-09-07 BK