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Summary: Master your calculus
Review: I took up this book for my course in economics and i found the book clear and examples quite relevant. However, our calculus background was rather weak and we were left to study integrals by oursleves. Because of this, most of us floundered in the text and could not fully appreciate some of the more essential steps of the proofs. The solutions to many examples requires a solid background in calculus to fully appreciate and, at times, even understand since certain steps are ommited. So much so that our eco teacher, with a degree in engineering mind you, admitted the book was a bit too terse and spent most of the time explaining the calculus that we learnt very little of actual statistics.
In short, master your calculus or this book will only give you a rough feel for elementary statistics but will definitely not arm you to take up higher stat courses.
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Summary: Clear exposition of statistical concepts
Review: I found the book to have clear explanations of many statistical concepts. I am a computer science graduate student with no formal background in statistics. I have looked at several statistics and probability theory textbooks and have found this one to be the easiest to understand and clearly written. That said, I am not using this book for a course, so I am not doing practice problems. The small number of problems for each section may be a shortcoming for those who are using this book for a course. Also, the proofs can be a little terse, although I have found this to be the case with other stat books.
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Summary: Not helpful for a student.
Review: The examples in this book are too simple to provide enough understanding of the complex problems that is asks. It does not explain it's processes well enough.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book is very useful in learning statistics. The text has many applications and problems that are practical. The authors include interesting biographical background on certain mathematicians and topics--this helps the student feel more connnected with the material. I highly recommend buying a copy (especially used--better deal) of this book for class or personal study.
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Summary: Excellent introduction to statistics...
Review: This book manages to stay focused on the main ideas all the way through. It uses no more math than what is necessary to derive the proofs of most theorems (although some are omitted). The main ideas of each chapter is introduced before the details are worked out, and summarized at the end of each chapter. The examples and case-studies are usually interesting (sometimes thought-provoking), instead of solely being based on urns and coloured balls. And the exercises range from trivial to interesting...In short, this is about as good as a textbook gets...
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Summary: Has tons of examples to make you fall in love w/ statistics
Review: This is a good companion volume to introductory mathematical statistics texts....it presents a wealth of examples that lets the reader appreciate just how powerful statistics can be.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is an excellent introductory text for students who wish to know more about mathematical statistics. The book is ideal for a student with a good solid year of mathematics, and the case studies really make the statistics theory more relevant
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Summary: Excellent Introductory Text
Review: This is an excellent introductory text for students who wish to know more about mathematical statistics. The book is ideal for a student with a good solid year of mathematics, and the case studies really make the statistics theory more relevant
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Summary: not enough detail, not enough examples.
Review: This is the required text for a 2-semester graduate course in math-stats I'm in, and even the professor agrees that it is "terse" in terms of the detail this book provides - she suggests we find alternative texts to supplement! The examples in the text are so different from each other that it is difficult to completely understand the concepts in each section. There are between 3 and 8 problems per section - ie, only 1-4 problems with answers - defninitely not enough to really get a feel for the topics. A companion book with extra problems and complete, fully-worked out solutions, and an appendix for reviewing things like calculus required for the problems, would be helpful. This book *seems* more accessible than Hogg&Craig, but in fact, is not!
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Summary: Vicious book!
Review: This is the worst book for students. I am a student at the Wharton School in Pennsylvania, and I've never had a more difficult time. The examples are complex. The writers make no effort of explaining the examples well enough. On top of that, some of the problems are absurdly difficult.
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