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Title: Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics by Murray R Spiegel, John J. Schiller, R. Alu Srinivasan ISBN: 0-07-135004-7 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 17 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: I don't want to give it any stars
Comment: As someone has stated earlier, this book doesn't go into details of how theorems or formulas are derived. They just state it - a sign of a bad book, in my opinion. Another example of this book's awfulness is the answers to the supplemental problems; some are WRONG(see 1.53, 1.66b, 2.43 just to name a few), this has driven me and my fellow clasmates crazy; making us believe that we're not doing it right. If you're a professor, please don't make this the required textbook, or even an optional book because it sucks.
Rating: 1
Summary: Worst Statistics book I've ever seen
Comment: If you already know detailed stat theory, and are looking for a refresher for the formulae and theorems, this book will work, although I cannot imagine anyone needing a refresher book if they knew the material well anyway. This book might also work if you approach math by memorizing concepts without understanding them. For the rest of us, this book confuses more than it explains anything at all. Theorems are stated, not proven. Formulas are given, rarely drawn. The book looks like cheat sheets I used in class, not even like notes taken in class where you follow the proofs being drawn by the professor.
I have worked as a statistical process control engineer for 5 years, and as a fixed income bonds analyst for the last 3, and I also have extensive undergraduate and postgraduate education in this area. This is THE worst book I've ever come across on the subject matter. My recommendation is to get a college level intro to stat book like Milton and Arnold, or Weiss, if you want to learn the basics, or a Masters level book if you want to get into details, like Ripley or Kleinbaum.
Rating: 5
Summary: Need a replacement
Comment: As per all Schaum's thjis is also excellent. Like many of the others I have, especially the Concrete Book, this one too, worn out. Since it was required for a course that I took for an elective, would you beleive Economic Statistics. An easy A for math majors and Engineers; no real hard core economics covered.
Had this course over thirty years ago; upon recomendation of a friend. Professor did ask one question regarding economics; "which one of these bell curves represents percent of total income". Most wrongly (as I did) the symettric one as opposed to the correctly skewed to the left one.
Nom more economics, then. Pure probability, Stats, and Fun. Since the prof was a sports and gaming fan, as am I, this is my favorite math.
The downside, was the prof was veiwed as biassed against women, because his one-point (out of 500) bonus question was always sports trivia. I actually usually hit them, although I remember, the one test before Memorial day 1970, that if were after I would have known that the Late Tony Hulman alwasys said "Gentlemaen, start your engines".
But I digress. Get this book, agree -- cheap thorough and worth it. My favorite and most practical branch of math; so buy, learn and beat the lotto, cards, horses, and slots.
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Probability, Random Variables, and Random Processes by Hwei Hsu ISBN: 0070306443 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Calculus by Elliott Mendelson, Frank Ayres ISBN: 0070419736 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 28 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra by Seymour Lipschutz, Marc Lipson ISBN: 0071362002 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 06 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Statistics by Murray R Spiegel ISBN: 0070602816 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 31 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk by Philippe Jorion ISBN: 0071355022 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 17 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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