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Saddlepoint Approximations with Applications

Ronald W. Butler
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 
2007
Number of Pages: 
564
Format: 
Hardcover
Series: 
Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics 22
Price: 
95.00
ISBN: 
9780521872508
Category: 
Monograph
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Preface; 1. Fundamental approximations; 2. Properties and derivatives; 3. Multivariate densities; 4. Conditional densities and distribution functions; 5. Exponential families and tilted distributions; 6. Further exponential family examples and theory; 7. Probability computation with p*; 8. Probabilities with r*-type approximations; 9. Nuisance parameters; 10. Sequential saddlepoint applications; 11. Applications to multivariate testing; 12. Ratios and roots of estimating equations; 13. First passage and time to event distributions; 14. Bootstrapping in the transform domain; 15. Bayesian applications; 16. Non-normal bases; References; Index.