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Title: Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis by John A. Rice ISBN: 0-534-20934-3 Publisher: Duxbury Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $122.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.59 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't believe the bad reviews of this book
Comment: This book is so far the best mathematical statistics and data analysis textbook I've ever read for an undergraduate intermediate level statistics course. The topics are well chosen and the book is well written. The previous bad reviews of the book at Amazon.com are from people with absolutely no knowledge of statistics and trying to find some short-cut to "prepare for a exam" or whatever. So if you are a serious reader and with intermediate level statistics understanding, go for the book. It is not only good to be used a textbook, but also excellent for reference purpose.
Rating: 5
Summary: Get another if you have a choice.
Comment: I've done a lot of undergraduate work in statistics. I am comfortable with using it all over the place, and just repetitive practice leads to sudden flashes of insight into the subject matter for me. This book totally turned me off statistics. I feel this book's claims to 'applicability' are pure hogwash. What I believe this book is, is a rather abstruse expedition into the 'why statistics works' from a math/calculus perspective. If you're a math major, sure this book will let you take a supercilious look at the hodgepodge of statistical theory (there was actually such a person in my course, and boy did he irritate everybody!). For the rest of us, when you see a calculus integral that takes paras to explain, and the end of it Rice declaims, So, you see, this is the probability! we're just gonna go.. Huh! you jerk, you took all that dicking about to get to this?! The exercises are all straight calculus buffoonery, take lots of time, and don't add to any insight to the subject WHATSOEVER. I came close to an A in this course, but the exercises were just a waste of time (and took a LOT of time). Avoid this book like the plague. A lecturing didactic, time-wasting, ugly, deathly plague. That said, I have a copy for sale if you want one! ;-)
Cheerio,N(HTH!).
BTW I am sure it is a good book (though not for most of us) hence the 5 stars. Oh, and if you aren't obnoxiously chummy with calculus, don't even dream of getting this book. That said, some of the exercises are interesting in their own right, but hey, I'd rather read a Martin Gardner in that case!
Rating: 1
Summary: Simply one of the worst textbooks in statistics
Comment: This book is the worst math / statistics textbook that I have ever encountered. The explanation for most concepts is either inadequate or incomprehensible. The worst fact is that Rice has a tendency to introduce new variables in examples and proofs without ever defining the variables. Rice's notation also differs from standard statistical notation for many topics. Overall, there are really very little redeeming features about this book except nice tables and several good problems. I strongly do not recommend purchasing this book, as it makes a worthless reference.
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Title: Statistical Inference by George Casella, Roger L. Berger ISBN: 0534243126 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 18 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $117.95 |
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Title: A First Course in Probability (6th Edition) by Sheldon Ross ISBN: 0130338516 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $101.33 |
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Title: Statistical Consulting by Javier G. Cabrera, Andrew McDougall, A. McDougall ISBN: 0387988637 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 02 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Probability Models, Eighth Edition by Sheldon Ross, Sheldon M. Ross ISBN: 0125980558 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
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Title: Probability and Statistics (3rd Edition) by Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish ISBN: 0201524880 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $112.00 |
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