[P17]Statistical Inference,S.D. Silvey, Penguin Books, 1970. This is an excellent relatively gentle introduction to advanced concepts in statistical inference. [P18]Statistics and Econometric Models,Vol.'s 1 & 2, C. Courieroux & A. Monfort, Cam- bridge University Press, 1995. - Statistical Inference. By S. D. Silvey. Pp. 192. £1·50. 1970. (Penguin Education.) - Volume 55 Issue 393. Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Differential geometry provides an aesthetically appealing and often revealing view of statistical inference. Beginning with an elementary treatment of one-parameter statistical models and ending with an overview of recent developments, this is the first book to provide an introduction to the subject that is largely accessible to the approach of minimum divergence methods got a major boost in the 1960s, with the development of the csiszar class´ of divergences (csisz´ar 1963 , 1967; ali and silvey 1966), although it did take the statisticians a few more decades to get a general understanding of the scope and full potential of the procedures resulting from the minimization … S. D. Silvey, Statistical Inference. Chapman and Hall, 1975. Handbooks: Z. Griliches and M. Intriligator, eds., Handbook of Econometrics, Vol. 1. North-Holland, 1983. Z. Griliches and M. Intriligator, eds., Handbook of Econometrics, Vol. 2. North-Holland, 1984. Z. Griliches and M. Intriligator, eds., Handbook of Econometrics, Vol. 3.