Elements of Distribution Theory

Name: Elements of Distribution Theory
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ISBN: 9780521844727

ISBN-10: 052184472X

ISBN-13: 9780521844727

Edition: 2005

Authors: Thomas A. Severini, R. Gill, B. D. Ripley, S. Ross, B. Silverman

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Providing a comprehensive discussion of the major results of distribution theory at a level not requiring advanced probability theory, this text contains many examples and exercises, as well as detailed proofs of nearly every result.

Book details

List price: $116.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/8/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 2.376

Thomas A. Severini received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Chicago. He is now a Professor of Statistics at Northwestern University. He has also written Likelihood Methods in Statistics. He has published extensively in statistical journals such as Biometrika, the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. He is a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association.




Properties of probability distributions



Conditional distributions and expectation



Characteristic functions



Moments and cumulants



Parametric families of distributions



Stochastic processes



Distribution theory for functions of random variables



Normal distribution theory



Approximation of integrals



Orthogonal polynomials



Approximation of probability distributions



Central limit theorems



Approximation to the distributions of more general statistics



Higher-order asymptotic approximations