Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Dated, but a great serious stats book

Kevin Hastings is one of my favorite authors in the statistics and probability field.As others have stated this is not the fluffy stats book with lots of graphics and colorful pictures for the student who has to take stats.This is also not an advanced rigorous study of probability for advanced math majors.So that leaves us to what it is: a serious text on both probability and statistics for those who actually want to really learn the subject.Kevin hastings knows the subject, and he presents clear examples and proofs. You will gain an understanding beyond basic distributions and calculating means.I have both of his books and his presentation is both authoritative and intuitive for the student.There are a ton of exercises and answers.The only reason this is not 5 stars is because it is a little dated. But you can pick this up used on Amazon and it is worth the time for the serious student.