Optimal statistical decisions 047168029X

(foreword to the Wiley Classics Libary edition - part of the book) Optimal Statistical Decisions is a landmark book. It

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Optimal statistical decisions
047168029X

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Morris H. DeGroot

Table of contents :
Copyright
Foreword to the Wiley Classics Library edition
Preface to the original edition
Contents
Part I: Survey of probability theory
1. Introduction
2. Experiments, sample spaces, and probability
3. Random variables, random vectors, and distribution functions
4. Some special univariate distributions
5. Some special multivariate distributions
Part II: Subjective probability and utility
6. Subjective probability
7. Utility
Part III: Statistical decision problems
8. Decision problems
9. Conjugate prior distributions
10. Limiting posterior distributions
11. Estimation, testing hypotheses, and linear statistical models
Part IV: Sequential decisions
12. Sequential sampling
13. Optimal stopping
14. Sequential choice of experiments
References
Supplementary bibliography
Indexes
Name index
Subject index

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