Intermediate Statistics and Econometrics: A Comparative Approach
Author: Dale J. Poirier
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ISBN: 0262161494
Publisher: MIT Press (10 March, 1995)
Sales Rank: 498,908
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 out of 5
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Rating: 1 out of 5
At best a supplement text
Like mentioned before, it is a continuous listing of theorems with most proofs "left to the reader". While the concepts might appear "straightforward" to the author, I would say someone without prior knowledge of analysis and a higher undergrad math stat course will be lost from the beginning.It might be useful as a supplementary text to a book like Casella & Berger "Statistical Inference," but is definately the wrong choice as the primary source of a course.
I also agree that classical statistics does not receive a fair treatment. The focus of this book is to show the superiority of Baysian statistics.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Bought under duress
This is the most incomprehensible booK i have ever seen, read (un)used in my entire lifetime. Buy this book if you really lIke pain.
Read Hogg & CRaig instead.
The book is probably great if you have already spent a decade learning the stuff from elsewhere and you just want a bOok that compiles a lot of theorems and definitions in one place.
The book is also a great piece of frequeNtist bashing, which according to me belongs elsewhere and not in an "intermediate" statistics book.
BEWARE: the errata in the book is 30 pages long (A4 size pages)AND even the errata has errors..Gasp!
Rating: 5 out of 5
please give us a table of contents
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