Exercises in Statistical Reasoning

"This book is a true pleasure to read, both enriching and intellectually rewarding. I have learned a great deal from it and am confident future readers will have the same experience...This is a great book with many interesting exercise problems in mathematical statistics suitable for first- and second-year PhD students. The problems and solutions are well-designed (e.g., many problems are broken down into smaller pieces to help students solve them step by step) and clearly written. The book covers a range of important topics including likelihood, decision theory, asymptotics, and MCMC. The exercises encompass both frequentist and Bayesian approaches, and these perspectives are consistently integrated throughout the text...In summary, I greatly enjoyed reading this book. The exercises are both motivating and challenging, covering a wide range of topics in statistics. I highly recommend this book as a valuable resource for preparing graduate-level exams and PhD qualifying examinations in statistics. If possible, I would like to use this book for homework assignments and after-class reading for my classes and students."
~ Weining Shen, University of California, Irvine, USA, published in The American Statistician, June 2026