This book is for students and researchers who have had a first year graduate level mathematicalstatistics course. It covers classical likelihood, Bayesian, and permutation inference;an introduction to basic asymptotic distribution theory; and modern topics like M-estimation, the jackknife, and the bootstrap. R code is woven throughout the text, and there are a large numberof examples and problems.

An important goal has been to make the topics accessible to a wide audience, with little overt relianceon measure theory. A typical semester course consists of Chapters 1-6 (likelihood-based...