In our book Theoretical Statistics we gave about 150 Further results and
exercises mostly intended to illustrate material of intrinsic interest
that it was not possible to cover in the main text. In many cases the
statements were based quite directly on recent papers. The present book
gives outline solutions and discussion of these problems. To make the
book selfcontained we have preceded each set of problems by a brief
summary of the main general ideas required. The collection of these
summaries provides a rapid review of the theory of statistics. The book
contains a substantial amount of general material not previously
available in book form. The detailed solution of special problems is a
vital part of the study of any mathematical subject and we hope
therefore that teachers and students of statistics especially at
graduate level will find the problems and outline solutions helpful. In
addition we hope that research workers in statistics interested in
special problems will find the book an effective review of some useful
theoretical ideas including the associated elementary mathematical
techniques. While the numbering and arrangement of the problems is the
same as in Theoretical Statistics, we have rewritten a number of the
problems, partly in order to make them self contained and partly for
clarification and correction.
