TY - BOOK AU - Basu,Ayanendranath AU - Shioya,Hiroyuki AU - Park,Chanseok TI - Statistical inference: the minimum distance approach T2 - Monographs on statistics and applied probability SN - 9781420099652 PY - 2011/// CY - Boca Raton, Fla. PB - Chapman & Hall/CRC KW - Mathematical statistics N1 - "A Chapman & Hall book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-402) and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Statistical distances -- 3. Continuous models -- 4. Measures of robustness and computational issues -- 5. The hypothesis testing problem -- 6. Techniques for inlier modification -- 7. Weighted likelihood estimation -- 8. Multinomial goodness-of-fit testing -- 9. The density power divergence -- 10. Other applications -- 11. Distance measures in information and engineering -- 12. Applications to other models; Also available as an electronic resource ER -