An exceptionally clear and impeccably accurate presentation of statistical applications and more advanced theory. Included is a chapter on the distribution of functions of random variables as well as an excellent chapter on sufficient statistics. More modern technology is used in considering limiting distributions, making the presentations more clear and uniform.
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Since Allen T. Craig's death in 1978, Bob Hogg has revised the later editions of this text. However, when Prentice Hall asked him to consider a sixth edition, he thought of his good friend, Joe McKean, and asked him to help. That was a great choice for Joe made many excellent suggestions on which we both could agree and these changes are outlined later in this preface.
In addition to Joe's ideas, our colleague Jon Cryer gave us his marked up copy of the fifth edition from which we changed a number of items. Moreover, George Woodworth and Kate Cowles made a number of suggestions concerning the new Bayesian chapter; in particular, Woodworth taught us about a "Dutch book" used in many Bayesian proofs. Of course, in addition to these three, we must thank others, both faculty and students, who have made worthwhile suggestions. However, our greatest debts of gratitude are for our special friend, Tom Hettmansperger of Penn State University, who used our revised notes in his mathematical statistics course during the 2002-2004 academic years and Suzanne Dubnicka of Kansas State University who used our notes in her mathematical statistics course during Fall of 2003. From these experiences, Tom and Suzanne and several of their students provided us with new ideas and corrections.
While in earlier editions, Hogg and Craig had resisted adding any "real" problems, Joe did insert a few among his more important changes. While the level of the book is aimed for beginning graduate students in Statistics, it is also suitable for senior undergraduate mathematics, statistics and actuarial science majors.
The major differences between this edition and the fifth edition are:
Most instructors will find selections from the first nine chapters sufficient for a two-semester course. However, we hope that many will want to insert one of the three topic chapters into their course. As a matter of fact, there is really enough material for a three semester sequence, which at one time we taught at the University of Iowa. A few optional sections have been marked with an asterisk.
We would like to thank the following reviewers who read through earlier versions of the manuscript: Walter Freiberger, Brown University; John Leahy, University of Oregon; Bradford Crain, Portland State University; Joseph S. Verducci, Ohio State University. and Hosam M. Mahmoud, George Washington University. Their suggestions were helpful in editing the final version.
Finally, we would like to thank George Lobell and Prentice Hall who provided funds to have the fifth edition converted to LATEX 2e and Kimberly Crimin who carried out this work. It certainly helped us in writing the sixth edition in LATF,X 2E. Also, a special thanks to Ash Abebe for technical assistance. Last, but not least, we must thank our wives, Ann and Marge, who provided great support for our efforts. Let's hope the readers approve of the results.
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