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Statistical Methods: The Geometric Approach (Springer Texts in Statistics)

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This book should be considered as a must read for those who want to understand statistics beyond "magical formulas and the rituel of significance tests". Authors manage to provide very concise, clear (and of course visual) depiction of some fundamental statistical methods. I think this book is an easy bridge to be crossed in order to reach the realm of advanced statistical theory.

I am an educator of beginning college students. I have taught statistics for some 8 years and this book supplies the insight that allows the student to visually 'see' the connections between ANOVA, Regression, and ANCOVA. It does take some work to appreciate the approach, but is certainly worth it. As the authors state, it is an intermediate between the 'cookbook' routines and the advanced format using matrix algebra. I found I needed to review vector manipulation and some algebra of random variables before getting very far, but that is an acceptable preliminary to the consequent benefits.

This book reviews some of the core concepts of statistical science, through the angle of geometrical properties. This book will be very interesting for graduate or undergraduate students who want to broaden their understanding. Also for non specialists, this book presents the subject in a very easy to understand manner. It really helped me tremendously with statistical concepts.