From the reviews‎:‎ ‎"‎The book is devoted to the development of the statistical approach to inverse problems ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ ‎.‎ The content is written clearly and without citations in the main text‎.‎ Every chapter has a section called ‎'‎Notes and comments‎'‎ where the citations and further reading‎,‎ as well as brief comments on more advanced topics‎,‎ are provided‎.‎ The book is aimed at postgraduate students ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ ‎.‎ The book also will be of interest for many researchers and scientists working in the area of image processing‎.‎‎"‎ ‎(‎Tzvetan Semerdjiev‎,‎ Zentralblatt MATH‎,‎ Vol‎.‎ 1068‎,‎ 2005‎)‎ ‎"‎Inverse problems are usually ill‎-posed in the sense that a solution need not exist‎,‎ need not be unique‎,‎ and depends in a discontinuous way on the data ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ ‎.‎ there have been two quite separate communities dealing with such problems‎,‎ one basing their methods mainly on functional analysis‎,‎ the other one on statistics‎.‎ ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ several attempts have been made to bridge the gap between these two groups‎.‎ The book under review ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ is a further‎,‎ quite successful attempt in this direction‎.‎‎"‎ ‎(‎Heinz W‎.‎ Engel‎,‎ SIAM Review‎,‎ Vol‎.‎ 48 ‎(‎1‎)‎‎,‎ 2006‎)‎