Statistics and Its Applications

Statistics is a subject with a vast field of application, involving problems which vary widely in their character and complexity. However, in tackling these, we use a relatively small core of central ideas and methods.

This book attempts to concentrate attention on these ideas: they are placed in a general setting and illustrated by relatively simple examples, avoiding wherever possible the extraneous difficulties of complicated mathematical manipulation.

In order to compress the central body of ideas into a small volume, it is necessary to assume a fair degree of mathematical sophistication on the part of the reader, and the book is intended for students of mathematics who are already accustomed to thinking in rather general terms about spaces and functions.