I appreciate that many people will be buying this because it has been endorsed by the Society of Actuaries. My review is for those who aren't being compelled to use the book in exam prep. I find "The Science of Uncertainty" to be the most consistently useful of the statistics texts in my office. The examples are clear, it has the right equations, and it's well organized.

Some people here are complaining of inaccuracies but they provide no examples and, frankly, I've never noticed a problem.

I like that authors provided an appendix explaining how to manipulate the distributions they discuss in the book using Mathematica. This was not new to me, but I can imagine it would save others some headaches.

I used this book to study for SOA exam P and loved it! If you already have some background in statistics and probability, this is the book to go. It will fill in the blanks left by your average school textbook and give you the nesessary coverage of the exam material.

For one who has a moderate amount of knowledge on probability, it is still a hard book to read. There are mistakes in the given examples that I can be certain of. But of those I didn't understand, I started to wonder if the answers are correct... What about quality control so that the readers can be more confident of it? Sad that we could not find better books on the applications of probability theories that have lots and lots of numerical examples, and exercises with answers....I am still searching.