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Title: Mathematical Statistics by Keith Knight ISBN: 1-58488-178-X Publisher: CRC Press Pub. Date: 24 November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.95

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Average Customer Rating: 1.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Advanced Text - Poor Reference Tool, Many Typos
Comment: I used this book in a class that I took for intermediate statistics, a mid-level graduate course in the statistics department at a top university. This is an advanced book on mathematical statistics. In general, I found that if I had significant exposure to a topic previously, I could easily understand the text. Sections of the book containing topics new to me, however, were difficult to understand. The biggest failure of this book to me is that it serves as a poor reference tool. Definitions, theorems, and important concepts are often hidden in paragraphs nestled between examples. There is no appendix or list of distributions, moment generating functions, etc. The index is incomplete. A second negative aspect of the book is that there are many typos. The extent of the typos often increases the difficulty of understanding the text.

Overall, this book should never be used for an undergraduate course. I also do not recommend this book for use in a graduate course, unless some later edition with heavy revisions is released. I strongly recommend not buying this book for personal use as a reference tool.

Rating: 1
Summary: The Worst.
Comment: This book does not, as the editorial review claims to be "a balanced, practical text that brings life and relevance to a subject so often perceived as irrelevant and dry". Rather, it makes what is already irrelevant and dry as even moreso. Not only that, but there are many typos that only confuzzle the reader even more. It reads as though it was written by a robot. There is no human touch to this text at all. This book is "clearly" and "obviously" inconclusive and I for one would love to never see it again.

Rating: 2
Summary: Not a pleasant read
Comment: While statistics is a very interesting subject and can be taught in many interesting ways, it is by no means taught in any student friendly way in this book. To begin with, this book is about as interesting of a read as its cover design. It starts off well with some review of general concepts, but then as you go on, things that could and should be explained are skipped using phrases such as "it could be clearly shown that..." or "it is easy to see that...". Unfortunately, to the average student of statistics, not everything is trivial. Aside from that, there are many typing errors and by that i mean A LOT. This book can be greatly improved first with the fixing of all those typos, and second with better explanations and less assumptions of "clearity" to the reader. Also, the discussion should be made less dry by perhaps relating what is taught to some familiar concepts. Overall, unless you've been studying statistics for a while, dont expect to know what you're reading at all times.