Hi, I am looking for a handbook of statistics a bit similar in style to that the Bronstein has for general mathematics.
I have a physics background, thus I am familiar with math, but I am missing some statistics terminology and I miss some basic statistical methods. Ideally the book should thus cover all what a good graduate statistician should be aware of. For example, I would like to find each classical variant of a t-test described in ~2 pages, with a short introductory text describing the ideas behind the method, followed by a list of the assumptions of the method (e.g. normality of data distribution) and then the procedure to actually conduct the calculations (in mathematical terms). Examples and references to specific statistical packages should be kept to a minimum. I have been looking for such a book for months, but I always end up finding textbooks in which the essence of the methods is diluted into pages of general -even trivial- considerations (which makes me fall asleep), or in specialized books in which the basics are missing (the book should start with the definition of the mean). Any suggestion ? :-) . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
