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| gandalf... |
 Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:15 am |
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I need a book to self-study statistical methods with the intention of reading it cover to cover and attempting all the problems.
My initial consideration was Kendall & Stuart which is rigorous and thorough but the drawback is it's encyclopaediac.
Then I considered Freedman-Pisani-Purves and Saville & Wood but although both very good books, both focus on intuitive development rather than rigour.
Is there anything else that is rigorous, non-encyclopaediac and suitable for self-study? |
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| gandalf... |
| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:45 am |
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| I did consider both Bickel-Doksum and Casella-Berger but they are suited for an inference course, whereas I'd like to learn frequentist data analysis first (what used to be called descriptive statistics, don't see that term being used much nowadays), things like central tendency, dispersion, correlation, basics of regression etc. |
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| Herman Rubin... |
| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:45 pm |
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In article <30233199.1216466188646.JavaMail.jakarta at (no spam) nitrogen.mathforum.org>,
gandalf <pratbh at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote: I need a book to self-study statistical methods with the intention of reading it cover to cover and attempting all the problems.
My initial consideration was Kendall & Stuart which is rigorous and thorough but the drawback is it's encyclopaediac.
Then I considered Freedman-Pisani-Purves and Saville & Wood but although both very good books, both focus on intuitive development rather than rigour.
Is there anything else that is rigorous, non-encyclopaediac and suitable for self-study?
Try Bickel and Doksum, second edition. It is far more up-to-date
than Kendall and Stuart, and more readable. But read it for
understanding, not methods; the methods will come without much
effort after.
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Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
hrubin at (no spam) stat.purdue.edu Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558 |
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