
1
Basic statistical concepts
1.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter and the next chapter are essential for understanding the content
of this book. By design, the chapters present statistics from a quite different
perspective as usually the statistics is introduced and taught. The theory of
statistics is presented from the pure Bayesian perspective where we attempt
to make sure that concepts of the classical statistics are not mixed in the ex-
position of the theory. In our experience, the Bayesian statistics is frequently
introduced in image and signal analysis texts a s an extension of the classical
treatment of probability. The classical treatment of probability ...