Ian C. Marschner is head of the Department of Statistics and a professor of statistics at Macquarie University. He is also a professor of biostatistics in the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Clinical Trials Centre at the University of Sydney. He has over 25 years of experience as a biostatistician working on health and medical research, particularly involving clinical trials and epidemiological studies of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. He was previously director of the Asia Biometrics Centre with Pfizer and an associate professor of biostatistics at Harvard University.

Probability and Random Samples. Estimation Concepts. Likelihood. Estimation Methods. Hypothesis Testing Concepts. Hypothesis Testing Methods. Bayesian Inference. Further Inference Topics. Appendices.