Comparison of Statistical Experiments (Paperback)

There are a number of important questions associated with statistical experiments: when does one given experiment yield more information than another; how can we measure the difference in information; how fast does information accumulate by repeating the experiment? The means of answering such questions has emerged from the work of Wald, Blackwell, LeCam and others and is based on the ideas of risk and deficiency. The present work which is devoted to the various methods of comparing statistical experiments, is essentially self-contained, requiring only some background in measure theory and functional analysis. Chapters introducing statistical experiments and the necessary convex analysis begin the book and are followed by others on game theory, decision theory and vector lattices. The notion of deficiency, which measures the difference in information between two experiments, is then introduced. The relation between it and other concepts, such as sufficiency, randomisation, distance, ordering, equivalence, completeness and convergence are explored. This is a comprehensive treatment of the subject and will be an essential reference for mathematical statisticians.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	October 2008
Authors:	Erik Torgersen
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	696
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-10282-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Promotions
LSN:	0-521-10282-0
Barcode:	9780521102827

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