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List of Functions from Chapter 3 Included in the Computational
Statistics Toolbox
Purpose MATLAB Function
These functions are used to obtain csbinpar
parameter estimates for a distribution. csexpar
csgampar
cspoipar
csunipar
These functions return the quantiles. csbinoq
csexpoq
csunifq
csweibq
csnormq
csquantiles
Other descriptive statistics csmomentc
cskewness
cskurtosis
csmoment
csecdf

3.7 Further Reading
Many books discuss sampling distributions and parameter estimation. These
topics are covered at an undergraduate level in most introductory statistics
books for engineers or non-statisticians. For the advanced undergraduate
and beginning graduate student, we recommend the text on mathematical
statistics by Hogg and Craig [1978]. Another excellent introductory book on
mathematical statistics that contains many applications and examples is writ-
ten by Mood, Graybill and Boes [1974]. Other texts at this same level include
Bain and Engelhardt [1992], Bickel and Doksum [2001], and Lindgren [1993].
For the reader interested in the theory of point estimation on a more
advanced graduate level, the book by Lehmann and Casella [1998] and Leh-
mann [1994] are classics.
Most of the texts already mentioned include descriptions of other methods
(Bayes methods, minimax methods, Pitman estimators, etc.) for estimating
parameters. For an introduction to robust estimation methods, see the books
by Wilcox [1997], Launer and Wilkinson [1979], Huber [1981], or Rousseeuw
and Leroy [1987] or see the survey paper by Hogg [1974]. Finally, the text by

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