Ayanendranath Basu & Chanseok (Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA) Park 
Statistical Inference [PDF ebook] 
The Minimum Distance Approach

In many ways, estimation by an appropriate minimum distance method is one of the most natural ideas in statistics. However, there are many different ways of constructing an appropriate distance between the data and the model: the scope of study referred to by ‘Minimum Distance Estimation’ is literally huge. Filling a statistical resource gap, Stati