The book gives an account of the mathematical-statistical theory of the main classes of parametric statistical models, i.e. transformatioon models and exponenti
Recently there has been a keen interest in the statistical analysis of change point detec tion and estimation. Mainly, it is because change point problems can b
This book is a slightly revised and expanded version of a set I I I of notes used for a lecture series given at the Ecole dlEte de I Probabilites at st. Flour i
Two unifying components of statistics are the likelihood function and the exponential family. These are brought together for the first time as the central theme
This book demonstrates that nonparametric statistics can be taught from a parametric point of view. As a result, one can exploit various parametric tools such a
