Statistical estimation

There are many different ways of discussing statistical estimation...

Goals

1. Point estimation
2. Interval estimation
3. multivariate estimation??
4. Regression/Model building[?]

Approaches/Philosophies

1. frequentist, or classical
2. Bayesian estimation[?]
3. fiducial??

Methods

(mixture of all of the above)

1. Maximum likelihood estimation[?]
2. Method of moments[?]
3. Least squares
4. Influence functions[?]?
5. Confidence interval[?] (or region)
6. Highest posterior density[?] interval/region
7. Fiducial[?]??
8. etc...