Mathematical Statistics with Applications | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dennis Wackerly, William Mendenhall, Richard L. Scheaffer
Publisher: Duxbury Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 432315
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 7
Pages: 944
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.5 x 1.6
ISBN: 0495110817
Dewey Decimal Number: 519
EAN: 9780495110811
Publication Date: October 10, 2007
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In their bestselling MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS WITH APPLICATIONS, premiere authors Dennis Wackerly, William Mendenhall, and Richard L. Scheaffer present a solid foundation in statistical theory while conveying the relevance and importance of the theory in solving practical problems in the real world. The authors' use of practical applications and excellent exercises helps you discover the nature of statistics and understand its essential role in scientific research.
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 Good text overall May 1, 2005
ReBorn (Toronto)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
In my opinion this is one of the best texts for introductory statistics. It contains a lot of useful material and is nice to read quickly since important formulas are highlighted. Examples are also helpful to learn the material. The only problem is that sometimes the excercises are too much of a real-world kind, which can be annoying if your course is theoretical. Still, I think that this book is always nice to have around in case you forget some things on probability or stats.
Best statistics book for econometricians March 19, 2002
Hanneke (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is a book on mathematical statistics and hence goes further than most entry-level statistics books, which mostly deal with business statistics. This book does not reinvent the wheel, but is goes further where other books end. You will find a mathematical explanation and theorems are proved as well. Soms more advanced topics are moment generating functions and power tests. The consequention is that the learning curve is steeper. At my university, econometrics students use this book, and they couldn't have made a better choice. Logically, since econometricians don't have enough on a book with only a minor focus on formulas.
Three standard deviations from the mean... April 30, 2000
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
As a student in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto who used "Introduction to Mathematical Statistics" by Rice as a textbook for a course on Probability and Statistics, I must say that my life would have been so much easier had I owned a copy of Wackerly's text. It is a concise, easy to follow, practical textbook that covers the material thoroughly while still presenting it in a most digestible form.
Fantastic Book April 10, 1999
Chuck Huber (Houston, Tx United States)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is one of the best introductory Math Stat books I've seen. It is very clearly written with many helpful examples. A bargain at twice the price!
A great book! August 1, 2000
pg (New York, USA)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is definitely one of the best introductory statistical books around. The writing is lucid and masterly, and includes a wide variety of topics. The authors have included an abundant number of well-chosen exercises and these cover a wide spectrum showing the application of statistics to the engineering, biological, etc., sciences. My only complaints are that there is not enough on residuals and influence in the chapter on regression; the use of the hat matrix in this context would have been most beneficial, in my opinion. Also I would have very much liked to see the Fisher information in inference and the Smith-Satterthwaite procedure in hypothesis testing included. Nonethless both students and instructors will find the book extremely useful and it gets my highest recommendations!
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