https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/astro-ph_0609591/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11703170urn:hackerpapers:mention:astro-ph_0609591:11703170Sun, 15 May 2016 22:51:52 GMT<p>Who is this book supposed to be for? Given the heavy emphasis on formalism (theorem, proof, theorem, proof, theorem, proof), and the lack of a single example that actually computes a number, I hazard a guess that this book is not for people who actually want to apply statistics to real problems. A while back I had to teach myself Fisher matrices and the Cramér–Rao bound to solve a problem I was working on. I quickly found that 90% of statistics textbooks and lecture notes on this subject are completely useless for people like me who want to arrive at a number, not some abstract expression…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/astro-ph_0609591/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph