Not my favourite genre of Statistics books as it states theorems without proofs., However, the elegance and simplicity of explanations in the book is so exceptional that despite being thrown theorems and equations, one forgets that this is a real mathematical text and has seemingly complex topics. It is hard for me to think of any other textbook that has introduced kernel smoothing methods and density estimation with such ease.
downvoted because the topic is pointless. Statisticians will twaddle for eternity debating frivolous issues such as Epanechnikov vs triangular "kernel" … for how to plot a continuous version of a histogram. Value-less scholasticism.
Shocked! As a statistics graduates who feel inadequate about math, I found this book bring me a lot of intuition/understanding of statistics. Although I have read a lot of statistics textbooks or reference books before, I still feel shocked by this book.
Instead of theorems with solid proofs, author focus on the Zen of statistics. This book is not for someone wants to use statitics as a tool, but for someone wants to experience the "Art of Statistics".