Mathematical statistics with applications

by William Mendenhall and Richard L. Scheaffer

Book Overview

This is the most widely used mathematical statistics text at the top 200 universities in the United States. Premiere authors Dennis Wackerly, William Mendenhall, and Richard L. Scheaffer present a solid undergraduate foundation in statistical theory while conveying the relevance and importance of the theory in solving practical problems in the real world. The authors'use of practical applications and excellent exercises helps students discover the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871509393
• ISBN13: 9780871509390
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Duxbury Press
• Length: 750 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great book on the subject

I've read through Chapter 6 so far on a self-study basis and done lots of the problems. This book was challenging but overall very beneficial to my understanding.

Good Book

this book is great in that the problems are at the end of each section compared to the end of each chapter

good book by excellent educators

The authors are well-known statisticians from the University of Florida and have taught a variety of introductory courses and written a number of good books. Although I do not have this most recent edition of the book, i did use an earlier edition for a graduate course in business statistics. Dick Scheafer is also a past President of the American Statistical Association and has been very influential and involved in the movement to expand statistics to elementary and high school courses.

Good text overall

In my opinion this is one of the best texts for introductory statistics. It contains a lot of useful material and is nice to read quickly since important formulas are highlighted. Examples are also helpful to learn the material. The only problem is that sometimes the excercises are too much of a real-world kind, which can be annoying if your course is theoretical. Still, I think that this book is always nice to have around in case you forget some things on probability or stats.

Three standard deviations from the mean...

As a student in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto who used "Introduction to Mathematical Statistics" by Rice as a textbook for a course on Probability and Statistics, I must say that my life would have been so much easier had I owned a copy of Wackerly's text. It is a concise, easy to follow, practical textbook that covers the material thoroughly while still presenting it in a most digestible form.