This is an enlargement of the first edition under the same title, published in 1997, and about 100 pages longer. There are new chapters on DNA sequence analysis and diffusion processes, plus an ...

Here we offer a 'meta-methodology' and framework in which to evaluate epistemological foundations of proposed statistical methods. On the basis of this framework, we consider that many statistical ...

Covers discrete and continuous probability laws, random variables; expectations; laws of large numbers and central limit theorem; estimation, testing hypothesis, analysis of variance, regression ...