
Mathematical basis of statistics
by Jean René Barra · first published 1981
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…not trying to write one or waiting for someone else to. Can get some of the flavor of mathematical statistics done with high quality, as mathematics, in, say (with TeX markup): Jean-Ren\'e Barra, {\it Mathematical Basis of Statistics,\/} ISBN 0-12-079240-0, Academic Press, New York.\ \ Robert J.\ Serfling, {\it Approximation Theorems of Mathematical Statistics,\/} ISBN 0-471-02403-1, John Wiley and Sons, New York.\ \ P.\ Billingsley, {\it…
on “Ask HN: I want to learn statistics and data mining” ↗…George E.\ P.\ Box and Gwilym M.\ Jenkins, {\it Time Series Analysis --- Forecasting and Control: Revised Edition,\/} ISBN 0-8162-1104-3, Holden-Day, San Francisco, 1976.\ \ Jean-Ren\'e Barra, {\it Mathematical Basis of Statistics}, ISBN 0-12-079240-0, Academic Press, New York, 1981.\ \ So, what is really significant recent ML is adding to this quite old material? How much of the good stuff in that material has CS AI/ML even…
on “Acquisitions accelerate as tech giants seek to build AI smarts” ↗…probability is the one used in essentially all advanced work, e.g., Ioannis Karatzas and Steven E. Shreve, 'Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, Second Edition', ISBN 0-387-97655-8. Jean-Rene Barra, 'Mathematical Basis of Statistics', ISBN 0-12-079240-0, Academic Press. Early in Neveu can see some ways we get essentially pushed into this foundation for probability. With this approach, for a random variable X, we define its expectation…
on “Think Stats, using python to learn stats ” ↗