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Model comparison is certainly an improvement over the old-school zoo of tests, but this book still manages to over-complicate plenty. (It was the impetus for me writing Contrast codes are an implementation detail, for example.) It was a course text and my course notes cover all the actual content. This post is just to warn people off the book itself.

I see two reasonable approaches to writing a statistics textbook:

This book takes the worst of both. It leaves software tools to the appendix, perhaps assuming that we prefer to use a hand calculator as required by the exam. It drowns the reader in equations but never bothers to derive them, or any of the underlying theory. It’s a sort of cargo-cult dedication to rigor, where the more LaTeX we use the more rigorous the book is.