Download or read book Parameter Estimation for Scientists and Engineers written by Adriaan van den Bos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-08-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is estimating parameters of expectation models of statistical observations. The book describes the most important aspects of the subject for applied scientists and engineers. This group of users is often not aware of estimators other than least squares. Therefore one purpose of this book is to show that statistical parameter estimation has much more to offer than least squares estimation alone. In the approach of this book, knowledge of the distribution of the observations is involved in the choice of estimators. A further advantage of the chosen approach is that it unifies the underlying theory and reduces it to a relatively small collection of coherent, generally applicable principles and notions.