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Optimal Statistical Decisions

ISBN: 978-0-471-68029-1
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512 pages
April 2004
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Foreword vii

Preface ix

Part One. Survey of Probability Theory

Chapter 1. Introduction 3

Chapter 2. Experiments, Sample Spaces, and Probability 6

Chapter 3. Random Variables, Random Vectors, and Distribution Functions 16

Chapter 4. Some Special Univariate Distributions 33

Chapter 5. Some Special Multivariate Distributions 48

Part Two. Subjective Probability and Utility

Chapter 6. Subjective Probability 69

Chapter 7. Utility 86

Part Three. Statistical Decision Problems

Chapter 8. Decision Problems 121

Chapter 9. Conjugate Prior Distributions 155

Chapter 10. Limiting Posterior Distributions 190

Chapter 11. Estimation, Testing Hypotheses, and linear Statistical Models 226

Part Four. Sequential Decisions

Chapter 12. Sequential Sampling 267

Chapter 13. Optimal Stopping 324

Chapter 14. Sequential Choice of Experiments 385

References 447

Supplementary Bibliography 466

Name Index 475

Subject Index 481

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