Introduction to Mathematical Statistics

We have made substantial changes in this edition of Introduction to Mathematical Statistics. Some of these changes help students appreciate the connection between statistical theory and statistical practice while other changes enhance the development and discussion of the statistical theory presented in this book. Many of the changes in this edition reflect comments made by our readers. One of these comments concerned the small number of real data sets in the previous editions. In this edition, we have included more real data sets, using them to illustrate statistical methods or to compare methods. Further, we have made these data sets accessible to students by including them in the free R package hmcpkg. They can also be individually downloaded in an R session at the url listed below. In general, the R code for the analyses on these data sets is given in the text.