Statistical Inference
by George Casella and Roger L. Berger · Casella & Berger
Standard first-year graduate text in mathematical statistics. Develops probability, transformations, sampling distributions, point estimation, hypothesis testing and interval estimation with full proofs, giving readers the theoretical grounding assumed by PhD-level statistics and econometrics courses.
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