Decision-theoretic foundations of statistical inference; From prior information to prior distributions; Bayesian point estimation; Tests and confidence regions; Admissibility and complete classes; Invariance, haar measures, and equivariant estimators; Hierarchical and empirical bayes extensions; Bayesian calculations; A defense of the bayesian choice; Appendix A: usual probability distributions; Appendix b: usual pseudorandom generators; Notation; References; Author index; Subject index.