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Article Contents
- TITLE PAGE
- ORIGINAL PREFACE
- PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION
- 1.DIRECT PROBABILITY
- 2.INVERSE PROBABILITY
- 3.LIKELIHOOD RATIOS
- 4.MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD METHOD
- 5.GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS
- 6.MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ERROR, ONE PARAMETER
- 7.MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ERRORS, M-PARAMETERS CORRELATED
ERRORS
- 8.PROPAGATION OF ERRORS: THE ERROR MATRIX
- 9.SYSTEMATIC ERRORS
- 10.UNIQUENESS OF MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD SOLUTION
- 11.CONFIDENCE INTERVALS AND THEIR ARBITRARINESS
- 12.BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION
- 13.POISSON DISTRIBUTION
- 14.GENERALIZED MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD
METHOD
- 15.THE LEAST-SQUARES METHOD
- 16.GOODNESS OF FIT, THE
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DISTRIBUTION
- APPENDIX I: PREDICTION OF LIKELIHOOD RATIOS
- APPENDIX II: DISTRIBUTION OF THE
LEAST-SQUARES SUM
- APPENDIX III. LEAST SQUARES WITH ERRORS IN BOTH
VARIABLES
- APPENDIX IV. NUMERICAL METHODS FOR MAXIMUM
LIKELIHOOD AND LEAST SQUARES SOLUTIONS
- APPENDIX V. CUMULATIVE GAUSSIAN AND CGI-SQUARED
DISTRIBUTIONS
- REFERENCES