Re: [OT][Long][You All Know Everything Dept] Recommendations for Stat book?

From: Erann Gat (gNOSPAMat_at_flownet.com)
Date: 06/10/04


Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:15:05 -0700

In article <YK%xc.172576$WA4.15245@twister.nyc.rr.com>,
 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> And the size/weight of the book is once
> again an issue just like the size of the book in example 1.

Try "Introduction to Probability Theory" by Hoel, Port and Stone. It's
the first in a three-volume series. It doesn't do any handwaving (as
far as I can recall) and it has a nice compact form factor.

I haven't looked at the other two books in the series (which cover
statistics and stochastic processes) but if they are similar to the
first one then they are probably also worthwhile.

E.



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