The Wiley Classics Library consists of selected books that have become recognized classics in their respective fields. With these new unabridged and inexpensive editions, Wiley hopes to extend the life of these important works by making them available to future generations of mathematicians and scientists.

The Wiley Classics Library consists of selected books that have become recognized classics in their respective fields. With these new unabridged and inexpensive editions, Wiley hopes to extend the life of these important works by making them available to future generations of mathematicians and scientists.

Foreword viiPreface ixPart One. Survey of Probability TheoryChapter 1. Introduction 3Chapter 2. Experiments, Sample Spaces, and Probability 6Chapter 3. Random Variables, Random Vectors, and Distribution Functions 16Chapter 4. Some Special Univariate Distributions 33Chapter 5. Some Special Multivariate Distributions 48Part Two. Subjective Probability and UtilityChapter 6. Subjective Probability 69Chapter 7. Utility 86Part Three. Statistical Decision ProblemsChapter 8. Decision Problems 121Chapter 9. Conjugate Prior Distributions 155Chapter 10. Limiting Posterior Distributions 190Chapter 11. Estimation, Testing Hypotheses, and linear Statistical Models 226Part Four. Sequential DecisionsChapter 12. Sequential Sampling 267Chapter 13. Optimal Stopping 324Chapter 14. Sequential Choice of Experiments 385References 447Supplementary Bibliography 466Name Index 475Subject Index 481