Mathematical Statistics with Mathematica

Book excerpt: This text and software package presents a unified approach for doing mathematical statistics with Mathematica. The mathStatica software empowers the student with the ability to solve difficult problems. The professional statistician should be able to tackle tricky multivariate distributions, generating functions, inversion theorems, symbolic maximum likelihood estimation, unbiased estimation, and the checking and correcting of textbook formulae. This is the ideal companion for researchers and students in statistics, econometrics, engineering, physics, psychometrics, economics, finance, biometrics, and the social sciences. The mathStatica CD-ROM includes: mathStatica - the applications pack for mathematical statistics, custom Mathematica palettes, live interactive book that is identical to the printed text, online help, and a trial version of Mathematica 4.0.