[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi Daniel, > > The first thing to do is make sure that your mathematics background is both > sufficient and up-to-date. You will need a working knowledge of matrix algebra > (linear algebra) and some calculus at a minimum for deep theoreticial understanding. > > The deep understanding comes from theoretical probability and statistics. In my day > "Hogg and Craig" was the basic text of choice for this. Lots of proofs and basic > theory. > > If you don't want to go quite that deep, I think a good place to start would be the > Sage Quantitative Series green books. They are short, relatively easy to > understand, and go a level or two deeper than Tabachnick and Fidell, but not as deep > as Hogg and Craig. I believe the website is www.sagepub.com.
The hint for the green books was really a great help. Thanks a lot! I think these books are a real good start (not only the ones on claculus and algebra, but also on factor analysis, scaling and so on). After that I can look a bit deeper into maths, but for the moment, I think this approach is the right thing for me (and more realistic to self study). Daniel . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
