Govindarajulu, Z. The sequential statistical analysis of hypothesis testing, point and interval estimation, and decision theory. (Corrected ed.). (English) Zbl 0601.62099 The American Sciences Press Series in Mathematical and Management Sciences, Vol. 5. Columbus, Ohio: American Sciences Press, Inc. IX, 680 p. $ 48.50 (1987). In this printing [see Zbl 0482.62069 for a review of the 1981 first edition], nearly one thousand corrections (mainly of minor misprints), updates of references, and the like have been made. In addition, several more major items have been corrected (usually with a footnote of thanks to those who called these items to the author’s attention). Cited in 11 Documents MSC: 62L10 Sequential statistical analysis 62-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics 62L12 Sequential estimation 62L15 Optimal stopping in statistics Keywords:sequential probability ratio test; SPRT; Wald’s SPRT; operating characteristic function; average sample number; ASN; Wald’s fundamental identity; truncated SPRT; generalized SPRT; sequential tests for composite hypotheses; sequential t test; sequential analogues of Stein’s two-stage test; sequential F-test; efficiency; Bayes sequential procedures; locally most powerful tests; sufficiency; completeness; CramĂ©r-Rao lower bound; consistency; two-stage procedures; double sampling estimation procedures; minimax estimation; nonsequential Bayes sequential estimates; large-sample theory for estimators; interval and point estimates for the normal mean; fixed-width confidence intervals; coefficient of variation; multi-variate normal; asymptotically optimal Bayes estimation; secretary problem Citations:Zbl 0482.62069 PDFBibTeX XML