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Review title: Despair all who have to use this book
Product review: This is possibly one of the worst textbooks I have ever read. I had to use this book in a graduate level econometrics class and found it very difficult to follow: poorly written, counterintuitive, and with a confusing choice of statistical notation. We only used about the first half of the book. A much better book is Rice's Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis.
