In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Back in the "old days", the standard text for an undergraduate math stat
>course was Hogg & Craig. I had some fondness for Lindgren. I haven't
>taught this course in nearly 20 years. Which texts occupy their position
>today?
It was? There were many, and none too good. Personally, I
never like Hogg and Craig too well, and considered Lindgren to
be far worse.
The question is which undergraduates. Someone who is planning
on doing decent graduate work should take an undergraduate
"pure mathematics" program intended for mathematicians, and no
probability and statistics below the level of Hoel, Port, and
Stone, if at all possible. If anything, I consider the level
to be on the low side. Other statistics books would be Bickel
and Doksum, or Cassella and Berger.
For those intending to only apply statistics, the appropriate
level would be the later versions of Hogg and Craig or Mood
and Graybill, with de Groot and the same level.
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