Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a completely outstanding work by an outstanding author. I have used this book for years, and again and again find myself turning to it for essential summaries and derivations of key results. Evidently some reviewers have not even caught on to the fact that the proofs of all the theorems are in the solved problems! (This is my first Amazon review, but I cannot allow the injustice perpetrated by some other reviewers to stand.)
All of the (few) typos of concern to some reviewers are in the "supplementary problems", and by the time you've got there you'll have no little confidence in your own answers and in your own ability. This is *the* probability and statistics book for me because the proofs are presented with minimum formality in order to maximize understanding of the main ideas. Want to know how to *derive* the chi-square distribution or how to add or multiply random variables? You'll find no clearer or more succinct presentation anywhere.
The first two chapters are also suitable for beginners. Copious examples (as thoughout) attend the presentations of (elementary) set theory, probability axioms, and combinatorics. The supplementary problems, always optional, however, do contain intermediate level challenges.
The book is entirely self-contained, and though it is of course true that extra books always help, it's the best single-source. It's ideal for self-study, as are all of Murray Spiegel's Schaum Outlines.

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Schaum's Outline of Beginning Statistics (Schaum's) Review

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(More customer reviews)There are many questions of beginning statistics which this book either has very skimpy and unsatisfactory answers or has no answers at all. For example, the book goes directly from explaining normal distribution to binomial distribution except that it never quite explains binomial distribution except from graphs. Granted, statistics concepts are very hard to explain in words. But the book seems to breeze through many important concepts with one sentence or two.
The book covers the following:
1)Descriptive Measure
2)Probability
3)Discrete Random Variables
4)Continuous Random Variables
5)Sampling Distributions
6)Estimation and Sample Size Determination
7)Tests of Hypothesis (one and two populations)
8)Chi Square
9)ANOVA
10)Regression and Correlation
11)Nonparametric Statistics
This is not a bad supplementary workbook but it is rather poor as a primary text on statistics.
Overall, I barely recommend this book for those who are beginning statistics (intended audience).

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