Informed Assessments An Introduction to Information, Entropy and Statistics

Name: Informed Assessments An Introduction to Information, Entropy and Statistics
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ISBN: 9780131092990

ISBN-10: 0131092995

ISBN-13: 9780131092990

Edition: 1995

Authors: Alan Jessop

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Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Probability


Information


Unbiased estimates


More on unbiased estimates


Bayes' Rule


Decision theory


Using probability estimates


Two dimensions


Least biased estimates of joint distributions


Correlation and regression


References


Answers to numerical exercises


App. A1. The mathematics of entropy maximisation


App. A2. Logarithms


App. A3. Numerical integration


App. A4. The Binomial, Poisson and Normal distributions


App. A5. Statistical tables


App. A6. Measures of location and loss functions


App. A7. Conditions for a credible interval


App. A8. The regression model


Index