Reminder that I have a textbook on an introduction to mathematical statistics and regression, designed for first year PhD students in poli sci, but maybe useful to others. Let me know if you use it and have feedback! mattblackwell.github.io/gov2002-book/

Does it assume calculus? I have used Kosuke’s QSS for our intro, and will be doing it again in the fall, so looking at others. We don’t use the GRE and many undergrad PS programs in Canada have pretty light stats reqs, so I have to get people from HS Alg II to R, causal inference, and basic OLS