SUBJECT INDEX

  • Absolutely continuous df
  • Actions
  • Admissible decision rule
  • Analysis of variance
    • one-way
    • table
    • two-way
    • two-way with interaction
  • Ancillary statistic
  • Assignment of probability
    • equally likely
    • on finite sample spaces
    • random
    • uniform
  • Asymptotic distribution,
    • of rth order-statistic
    • of sample moments
    • of sample quantile
  • Asymptotic relative efficiency(Pitman’s)
  • Asymptotically efficient estimator
  • Asymptotically normal
  • Asymptotically normal estimator
    • best
    • consistent
  • Asymptotically unbiased estimator
  • At random
  • Banach’s matchbox problem
  • Bayes,
    • risk
    • rule
    • solution
  • Behrens-Fisher problem
    • Welch approximation
  • Bernoulli random variable
  • Bernoulli trials
  • Bertrand’s paradox
  • Best asymptotically normal estimator
  • Beta distribution
    • bivariate
    • MGF
    • moments
  • Beta function
  • Bias of an estimator
  • Biased estimator
  • Binomial coefficient
  • Binomial distribution
    • bounds for tail probability
    • central term
    • characterization
    • generalized to multinomial
    • Kurtosis
    • mean
    • MGF
    • moments
    • PGF
    • relation to negative binomial
    • tail probability as incomplete beta function
    • variance
  • Blackwell-Rao theorem
  • Bonferroni’s inequality
  • Boole’s inequality
  • Bootstrap,
    • method
    • sample
  • Borel-Cantelli lemma
  • Borel-measurable functions, of an rv
  • Buffon’s needle problem
  • Canonical form
  • Cauchy distribution
    • bivariate
    • characterization
    • characteristic function
    • mean does not exist
    • MGF does not exist
    • moments
    • as ratio of two normal
    • as stable distribution
  • Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
  • Central limit theorem
    • applications of
  • Chapman, ...

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