When planning for this volume began early in 1984, our intent was to complete everything in
time for Fred Mosteller's 70th birthday on December 24, 1986. The alert reader will note that …

This book grew out of lectures delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, over many
years. The subject is a part of asymptotics in statistics, organized around a few central ideas …

The series is devoted to the publication of monographs and high-level textbooks in
mathematics, mathematical methods and their applications. Apart from covering important …

Lucien Le Cam is currently Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the
University of California, Berkeley. He was born on November 18, 1924, in Croze, Creuse …

ABRAHAM WALD'S recent book, Statistical Decision Functions [10], ft presents a new theory
of the foundations of statistics.'The vigorous exploration of this theory was begun by …

" The text is very clearly written [with] many illustrative examples and exercises [and] should
be considered by those instructors who would like to introduce a more modern (and a more …

This volume is the second edition of a work that presents a coherent introduction to the
subject of asymptotic statistics as it has developed in the past 50 years. The second edition …

Inference, or Mood and Graybill's Introduction to the Theory of Statistics, for example—or for
students who have no mathematics at all. Economics students tend to fall somewhere …

James O. Berger was born on April 6, 1950, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Orvis and Thelma
Berger. He earned his AB, MA and Ph. D. degrees in mathematics from Cornell University in …

Pearson with us here tonight. Had the college not changed its regulations on retirement he
might still be the Professor of Statistics. It is not my intent tonight to give any complete …