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was much better than the last book on statistics I read, At least it would either prove something, or state that the math involved was beyond the scope of the book and leave a proposition unproven, It also talked some about the limitations of the ideas and approximations that were being used, It even made an attempt to explain "degrees of freedom, "

I like this all the way through the basic hypothesis testing chapters, I liked the approach taken here to nonparametric testing, But that's about the point where things started

to get fuzzy, And it was bit fuzzier with Chi squared distributions, And by the time we got to F Distributions, it happened again: I felt like bees were living in my head,

What I take away from this is that I pretty much dislike statistics, It all seems like a huge house of cards to me: alot of very elegant math built on what may or may not be some pretty shady assumptions, That said, I did take away some very useful ideas that might have some application to testing trading systems, .