Mathematical statistics. Essays on history and methodology (Q434276)

This monograph gives on a total of 315 pages a historical review of the development of statistical concepts in the middle of the twentieth century. The book is organized in 5 chapters and is designed for researchers in theoretical statistics. In the first part of the book, the author describes the historical context, the increasing role of mathematics, the role of leading personalities as well as universal theories and basic concepts of mathematical statistics (Chapter 1) in the middle of the twentieth century. Besides to the intuitive idea of sufficiency, the concept of exhaustive statistics, completeness, the factorization theorem, trivially sufficient statistics, sufficiency and exponentiality and the characterizations of sufficiency is presented in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 is devoted to descriptive statistics and comprises amongst others parameters and functionals, estimands and estimators, stochastic order, spread, unimodality, concentration and convolution products. The nonasymptotic theory within the framework of optimality of unbiased estimators is discussed in Chapter 4. The last chapter of the book is Chapter 5 that stretches over 200 pages focuses on asymptotic optimality of estimators. In summary, the book under review is strongly recommended to interested theoreticians with strong background in measure and probability theory. Each chapter of the book is accompanied by supportive literature.