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The foundations of statistics.
- Title
- The foundations of statistics.
- Author
- Savage, Leonard J.
- Publication
- New York, Wiley [1954]
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Details
- Description
- 294 pages illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Wiley publications in statistics
- Uniform Title
- Wiley publications in statistics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Statistics.
- Statistics
- Statistiques.
- Bibliography (note)
- "Bibliographic material": p. 270-282.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminary considerations on decision in the face of uncertainty -- 3. Personal probability -- 4. Critical comments on personal probability -- 5. Utility -- 6. Observation -- 7. Partition problems -- 8. Statistics proper -- 9. Introduction to the minimax theory -- 10. A personalistic reinterpretation of the minimax theory -- 11. The parallelism between the minimax theory and the theory of two-person games -- 12. The mathematics of minimax problems -- 13. Objections to the minimax rules -- 14. The minimax theory applied to observations -- 15. Point estimation -- 16. Testing -- 17. Interval estimation and related topics.
- LCCN
- 54008689
- OCLC
- ocm00739556
- 739556
- SCSB-283954
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library