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The central concepts of probability include random variables and probability distributions. The central concepts of statistics include estimation and hypothesis testing. This is a review of these and other related ideas.
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Hoel PG (1971) Introduction to mathematical statistics, 4th edn. Wiley, New York
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Pardo, S. (2020). Fundamentals. In: Statistical Analysis of Empirical Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43328-4_1
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