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5.0 out of 5 stars
good introduction to mathematical statistics, April 10, 2006
This review is from: Advanced Statistics from an Elementary Point of View (Hardcover)
I purchased this book to supplement the textbook (Introduction to Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Bain & EngelHardt) used in a mathematical statistics course. Panik's book provides theory, but it also spends a lot of time explaining what the theory actually means. At times he also provides a list of observations about the topic discussed in that section. There are more topics covered than what I have seen in undergraduate mathematical statistics books, but not always in the depth (i.e., difficulty) presented in Bain & EngelHardt. If your understanding of statistics is at the level discussed in Statistical Inference (Casella & Berger), then you will find Panik's book to be too wordy. In order of difficulty, from easiest to hardest, I would rank these three books as Panik, Bain & EngelHardt, and Casella & Berger.
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