9780534233280. Pre-owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 838. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. 838 p. Statistics. This author s modern approach is intended primarily for honors undergraduates or undergraduates with a good math background taking a mathematical statistics or statistical inference course. The author takes a finite-dimensional functional modeling viewpoint (in contrast to the conventional parametric approach) to strengthen the connection between statistical theory and statistical methodology.