CONTENTS OF THE BOOK

Chapter 1 MATHAMATICAL MODELS

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Building Mathematical Models
1.3 Governing Principles
1.4 Idealization
1.5 Formulation
1.6 Manipulation
1.7 Reformation If any
1.8 Evaluation
1.9 Justification

1.10 Validation

Chapter 2. PROBABILITY MODELS

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Experimental Data
2.3 Statistical Pattern
2.4 Discrete Distributions
2.5 Group Family of Distributions
2.6 Continuous Distributions
2.7 Distributions of Transformations of Random Variables
2.8 Probability Distributions
2.9 Quantile – Quantile Plot
2.10 Problems

CHAPTER 3 PIONT ESTIMATION

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Point Estimation

3.3 Problems of Point Estimation

3.4 Criteria of Point Estimation

3.5 Consistent Estimator

3.6 Unbiased Estimator

3.7 Sufficient Statistic

3.8 Efficient Estimator

3.9 Problems

CHAPTER 4 REGULAR FAMILY OF DISTRIBUTIONS

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Completeness

4.3 Minimal Sufficient Statistic

4.4 Method of Constructing Minimal Sufficient Statistic

4.5 Problems

CHAPTER 5 OPTIMAL PROPERTIES OF POINT ESTIMATOR

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Uncorrelatedness Approach

5.3 Conditioning on Statistics Approach

4. 4 Information inequality Approach

4.5 Efficiency of a Statistics

4.6 Extension of information Inequality

4.7 Multiparameter information Inequality

4.8 Higher order derivatives Information Inequality

4.11 Problems

CHAPTER 5 METODS OF POINT ESTIMATION

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Maximum Likelihood estimation

5.3 Numerical Methods of Maximum Likelihood Estimation

5.4 Optimum Properties of Maximum Likelihood Estimator

5.5 Method of Minimum Variance Bound Estimation

5.6 Method of Moment Estimation

5.7 Method of Minimum Chi-Square Estimation

5.8 Method of Least Square Estimation

5.9 Best Linear Unbiased Estimator

5.10 Problems

CHAPTER 6 CONSTRUCTON OF INTERVAL ESTIMATION

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Confidence Intervals of Estimation

6.3 Alternative Method of Confidence Intervals

6.4 Optimum Confidence Intervals

6.5 Uses of Prior Information

6.6 Bayes Point Estimator

6.7 Bayes minimax Estimator

6.8 Bayes Confidence Intervals

6.9 Problems

Answer to Problems

Appendix

Glossary of Notations

Bibliography