Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index.
1. The first principle -- 2. Neyman-Pearson theory -- 3. Fisherian theory -- 4. Paradigms for statistics -- 5. Resolving the paradoxes from the old paradigms -- 6. Looking at likelihoods -- 7. Nuisance parameters -- 8. Bayesian statistical inference -- App. The paradox of the ravens