Much, much better than Casella and Berger by a mile. If you are a statistics graduate student, GET YOUR HANDS on this text. Yes, I know it's extremely expensive... but to save yourself some money, I recommend buying it on half (dot) com. I saved about $120 buying it there.<br><br>I used this in my undergraduate degree, and I would say this book is appropriate for anyone who either 1) has someone that can help them get through it or 2) has a decent level of "mathematical maturity." I didn't realize though, until I had bought it after my undergraduate degree that there are EXCELLENT reference lists at the end of each chapter which point to standard graduate-level treatments of the material in each chapter! This makes this book an excellent reference for those which want guidance on what graduate-level statistics books to buy if they're struggling in their graduate-level statistics courses. It is also very clear that this book is very much based on Casella and Berger's text, but it is written much better than Casella and Berger's text, as 1) it doesn't introduce terminology before it is defined and 2) it has excellent examples, which are solved to every last detail.<br><br>Yes, some of the problems are extremely easy. But if you are taking a graduate-level stats or probability course for the first time, or if you're self-studying graduate-level stats material, and you find that you're struggling, get this text. Then after you read the explanations, follow the examples on your own, and do some problems, Casella and Berger will be much more clear to you.<br><br>For the actuarial science majors, you probably are going to hate this text. I recommend Probability for Risk Management by Hassett and Stewart or Probability and Statistics with Applications: A Problem Solving Text by Asimow for those of you who aren't used to going through proofs and want to pass exam P.