Description
Book SynopsisLikelihood is important reading for students and professionals in biology, mathematical sciences, and philosophy.
Trade ReviewAn important text and, in addition, is a joy to read, being a paragon of lucid and witty exposition. Mathematical Gazette Full of appropriate examples (especially from genetics) and historical commentary, this monograph offers a rare simultaneous treatment of both mathematical and philosophical foundations. American Mathematical Monthly This book is commended to all philosophers of science who are interested in the problems of scientific inference. Search This book, by a well-known geneticist, will do much to publicize the generality of the likelihood method as a foundation for statistical procedure. It is both smoothly written and persuasive. Operations Research
Table of ContentsPreface
Preface to the 1972 edition
Prologue on probability
Chapter 1. The Framework of Inference
Chapter 2. The Concept of Likelihood
Chapter 3. Support
Chapter 4. Bayes' Theorem and inverse probability
Chapter 5. Maximum Support: The Method of Maximum Likelihood
Chapter 6. The Method of Support for Several Parameters
Chapter 7. Expected information and the distribution of evaluates
Chapter 8. Application in anomalous cases
Chapter 9. Support Tests
Chapter 10. Miscellaneous topics
Epilogue
Appendix 1. A problem in the doctrine of chances
Appendix 2. The history of likelihood
Appendix 3. Fiducial distributions
Appendix 4. The likelihood treatment of linear regression
Appendix 5. R.A. Fisher's work on statistical inference
Notes
References
Tables of support limits of t and X2
Index
