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The General Decision Problem.- The Probability Background.- Uniformly Most Powerful Tests.- Unbiasedness: Theory and First Applications.- Unbiasedness: Applications to Normal Distributions.- Invariance.- Linear Hypotheses.- The Minimax Principle.- Multiple Testing and Simultaneous... Read Full Overview

The third edition of Testing Statistical Hypotheses updates and expands upon the classic graduate text, emphasizing optimality theory for hypothesis testing and confidence sets. The principal additions include a rigorous treatment of large sample optimality, together with... Read Full Overview

This book covers the theory of hypotheses testing and of estimation by confidence intervals. Accompanying Theory of Point Estimation (1983) to cover the main topics of classical statistics, including theory and its principal applications, this second edition contains more on... Read Full Overview