The aim of this graduate textbook is to provide a comprehensive advanced coursein the theory of statistics covering those topics in estimation testing andlarge ... » 

The aim of this graduate textbook is to provide a comprehensive advanced coursein the theory of statistics covering those topics in estimation testing andlarge sample theory which a graduate student might typically need to learn aspreparation for work on a Ph.D. An important strength of this book is that itprovides a mathematically rigorous and evenhanded account of both Classicaland Bayesian inference in order to give readers a broad perspective. Forexample the uniformly most powerful approach to testing is contrasted withavailable decisiontheoretic approaches. «