“A First Course in Statistics for Signal Analysis is a small, dense, and inexpensive book that covers exactly what the title says: statistics for signal analysis. The book is targeted at classes ‘mainly populated by electrical, systems, computer and biomedical engineering juniors/seniors and graduate students…’ The book has much to recommend it. The author clearly understands the topics presented. The topics are covered in a rigorous manner, but not so rigorous as to be ostentatious. The sequence of topics is clearly targeted at the spectral properties of Gaussian stationary signals. Any student studying traditional communications and signal processing would benefit from an understanding of these topics…In summary, A First Course in Statistics for Signal Analysis has much in its favor. It is short, rigorous, mostly free of typos, and inexpensive…This book is most appropriate for a graduate class in signal analysis. It also could be used as a secondary text in a statistics, signal processing, or communications class.” —JASA