The ingratiating title notwithstanding, this is in no standard sense a text but a monograph, based largely upon the authors'' research over a period of years, and intended to be read by sophisticated students of theoretical statistics. No exercises attach to the nine chapters, nor are they interrup

The ingratiating title notwithstanding, this is in no standard sense a text but a monograph, based largely upon the authors'' research over a period of years, and intended to be read by sophisticated students of theoretical statistics. No exercises attach to the nine chapters, nor are they interrup