Modern Introduction to Probability and Statistics - Dekking, F.M. a Kraaikamp, C. a Lopuhaa, H.P. a Meester, L.E.

Many current texts in the area are just cookbooks and, as a result, students do not know why they perform the methods they are taught, or why the methods work. the text covers standard statistics and probability material, and develops beyond traditional parametric models to the Poisson process, and on to modern methods such as the bootstrap.