The Foundations of Statistics

In college I took at least 4 courses in statistics, but had to drop out of my probability classes for need to work while in school. This book is a great instruction on the probabilistic underpinnings of statistics. It is easy to read and so far explains it quite clearly.

pretty good; it's very cheap.

Much more theoretical than expected

very good for college math

Savage was well ahead of his time with the Foundations of Statistics. It is not an easy book and you need a good bit of math to get through it. It is, however, dated. The advancements in probability theory: Bayesian Networks, AI, etc. have made this a good, historical text. Unlike 99% of the ‘statistics texts’ that are out there and are useless.

Very foundational work on decision theory. Be prepared to have your noggin challenged! Make sure you brush up on boolean algebra and calculus. A fundamental understanding of probabilities is needed too.

I like this book because it addresses not only the usual "frequentist" approach taught in many undergraduate programs, but also includes "personal" aspects of statistics. This is not a "casual" reading text; it is fairly terse and requires some mathematical sophistication on the part of the reader

Amazing book. It teaches and describes a science (Savagean Statistics) through which one can address and solve numerical issues which basic statistics cannot, due to its several limitations.

This book is often taken as establishing the 'Bayesian' approach to statistics, but Savage gives some important caveats. I discuss these at my blog, djmarsay.wordpress.com, which you can search for 'Savage'.

Everything was perfect. Firstly, the book was as described and secondly the delivery time as it was supposed to be.

E' un testo necessario a chiunque si interessi di "Probabilità e Statistica". Un testo che peraltro conferma il valore del contributo assicurato da Bruno de Finetti allo sviluppo del pensiero probabilistico, nella proiezione applicativa delle reti bayesiane.