Table of Contents

Overview and Preliminaries.

ONE-PARAMETER CURVED EXPONENTIAL FAMILIES.

First-Order Asymptotics.

Second-Order Asymptotics.

MULTIPARAMETER CURVED EXPONENTIAL FAMILIES.

Extensions of Results from the One-Parameter Case.

Exponential Family Regression and Diagnostics.

Curvature in Exponential Family Regression.

DIFFERENTIAL-GEOMETRIC METHODS.

Information-Metric Riemannian Geometry.

Statistical Manifolds.

Divergence Functions.

Recent Developments.

Appendices.

References.

Indexes.

About the Author

ROBERT E. KASS is Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. PAUL W. VOS is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at East Carolina University. Both authors received their PhDs from the University of Chicago.

Reviews

"I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in asymptoticinferences." (Statistics & Decisions, Vol.19 No. 3, 2001)