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Summary: Decent but severely overpriced
Review: I used this book for a 300 level undergraduate probability course. I'm glad it's over now!Pros:
1) The book is set up in a straightforward way, running from counting techniques to probability and then statistics.
2) The examples were pretty helpful. Cons:
1)PRICE!!!!!!!! Every college student knows that textbooks are overpriced these days. The companies seem to justify this by adding links to related web content, putting color photos/graphics on every page, etc. This book has none of this! It's all black and white! All the graphs look like they were done on an Apple II! Hey, I like pictures as much as the next guy, but but a 6 year old edition of 600 black text pages is not worth $100!!!!!!
2)No solution manual--for some of the more complicated problems, you need the solution manual, not just a numerical answer at the back of the book. Verdict:
If you have to buy this, but it used! Stand up to textbook price-gouging!
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Summary: Very precise with plenty of proofs
Review: This book differentiates itself from other mathematical statistics books by the accuracy of its content (almost no errors). Multivariable Calculus is definitely a prerequisite to this book though, and many of the exercises and examples deal with proofs. I would have given the book 5 stars but it lost points for two reasons: 1.)The latter chapters (after chapter 3, except the applications chapters) include almost no applied examples.
2.)The authors have a bad habit of introducing new problems in the exercises. I can't think of any proofs that were neglected, and all of the proofs were elegant and complete, but very few applied examples were given. Despite these shortcomings I liked the book and feel it is a good calculus based introductory book to mathematical statistics. If you are looking for a deeper understanding of statistics and the mathematical theory behind statistics then this is a great book for you!
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Summary: An average reader
Review: With a very limited background in theoretical probability & statistics (as was the case for me), this book is no doubt a challenge and requires serious patience at times. However, the effort really paid off in the end, leaving me with a both intuitive and in-depth understanding of important statistical concepts. The only real frustration was that there are only answers to half of the exercises, and even these are not worked out. Having a solution manual with worked solutions to all problems would have EASILY made this a 5-star book.
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