I am currently a second year science student double majoring in biochemistry and applied statistics. The stats course im doing this semester (Statistical Theory) is focused on joint probability distributions, moments of univariate distributions, moment generating function, distribution of sample statistics and parameter estimation. We have no recommended textbook for this course (instead my college offers their own notes with tutorial exercises at the end). I wrote my first test for this course and it turns out that the tutorial exercises are extremely easy (and few) in comparison. Can anyone recommend textbooks (with practice questions) so i can become more confident with anything they might throw my way??  Thank you
I took several statistics courses in college but I found that my education was very theory driven.  I was wondering if any of you had a text in Applied Statistics (at the graduate level) that you recommend or have had good experience with.
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