Applied Asymptotics

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:A. R. Brazzale

页数:248

出版时间:2007-5

价格:717.00元

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780521847032

丛书系列:Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics

图书标签:2016

In fields such as biology, medical sciences, sociology, and economics researchers often face the situation where the number of available observations, or the amount of available information, is sufficiently small that approximations based on the normal distribution may be unreliable. Theoretical work over the last quarter-century has led to new likelihood-based methods that lead to very accurate approximations in finite samples, but this work has had limited impact on statistical practice. This book illustrates by means of realistic examples and case studies how to use the new theory, and investigates how and when it makes a difference to the resulting inference. The treatment is oriented towards practice and comes with code in the R language (available from the web) which enables the methods to be applied in a range of situations of interest to practitioners. The analysis includes some comparisons of higher order likelihood inference with bootstrap or Bayesian methods.