It is counterintuitive that, with a sample of only one value from a normal distribution, one can construct a finite confidence interval of any size for the mean. It goes just as much against standard ...

In comparing two treatments with failure time observations, confidence bands for the "difference" of two survival curves provide useful information about a global picture of the treatment difference ...

Identify characteristics of “good” estimators and be able to compare competing estimators. Construct sound estimators using the techniques of maximum likelihood and method of moments estimation.