Statistical Inference Based on the likelihood (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)

the long version

"The likelihood plays a key role both in introducing general notions of statistical theory and in developing specific methods. This book introduces likelihood-based statistical theory and related methods from a classical viewpoint, and demonstrates how the main body of currently used statistical techniques can be generated from a few key concepts, in particular the likelihood." "Focusing on those methods which have both a solid theoretical background and practical relevance, the author gives formal justification of the methods used and provides numerical answers with real data." "Statistical Inference is aimed at graduate students and researchers in statistics and applied statistics."--BOOK JACKET.