Student Solutions Manual for Wackerly/Mendenhall/Scheaffer S Mathematical Statistics with Applications, 6th

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.

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.

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.

This book is a book on mathematical statistics and hence goes further than most entry-level statistics books, which mostly deal with business statistics. This book does not reinvent the wheel, but is goes further where other books end. You will find a mathematical explanation and theorems are proved as well. Soms more advanced topics are moment generating functions and power tests. The consequention is that the learning curve is steeper. At my university, econometrics students use this book, and they couldn't have made a better choice. Logically, since econometricians don't have enough on a book with only a minor focus on formulas.

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.