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Mathematical Statistics with Applications (Mathematical Statistics (W/ Applications))
by Dennis Wackerly, William Mendenhall, Richard L. Scheaffer
from Duxbury Press
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Mathematical Statistics with Applications 
If you have to have this particular book for a class, then you have no choice. But, if you don't, this book has a lot of problems with very little help in solving them, unless you obtain a solution manual.
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Lacking in useful examples and theorems
I had to use this text for my Stat Theory classes. This book is very frustrating in that it fails to mention some very useful theorems. Example: A problem from Ch. 3 asks: If Y is a random variable with moment-generating function m(t), and if W is given by W = aY + b, show that the m.g.f. of W is e^(tb)*m(at). In the section containing this problem, two theorems are omitted, one of which states that if X and Y are indep. random variables having m.g.f.'s Mx(t) and My(t), respectively, then Mx+y(t) =... more info
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A Weak Choice For Upper Division
The text isn't "bad," but I would look elsewhere. Sections and exercises are numbered in an uncomfortable way. Important topics and formulae are hidden within dense paragraphs, instead of being visually offset. The overall graphic and textual communication works... barely. There is much room for improvement.
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Non Fiction
Mathematical Statistics with Applications
by William Mendenhall and other authors is a higher level university text on probability and statistics, dealing with some of the underlying mathematics and calculus, moments, probability generation functions and all that sort of thing.
Definitely not your light right type of mathematics books by any stretch of the imaginaiton.
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