Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists (8th Edition) |  | Authors: Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers, Sharon L. Myers, Keying Ye
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 8
Pages: 848
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.7 x 1.4
ISBN: 0131877119
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.02462
EAN: 9780131877115
ASIN: 0131877119
Publication Date: March 5, 2006
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With its unique balance of theory and methodology, this classic text provides a rigorous introduction to basic probability theory and statistical inference, motivated by interesting, relevant applications. Offers extensively updated coverage, new problem sets, and chapter-ending material to enhance the book’s relevance to today’s engineers and scientists. Includes new problem sets demonstrating updated applications to engineering as well as biological, physical, and computer science. Emphasizes key ideas as well as the risks and hazards associated with practical application of the material. Includes new material on topics including: difference between discrete and continuous measurements; binary data; quartiles; importance of experimental design; “dummy” variables; rules for expectations and variances of linear functions; Poisson distribution; Weibull and lognormal distributions; central limit theorem, and data plotting. Introduces Bayesian statistics, including its applications to many fields. For those interested in learning more about probability and statistics.
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 No errata??? September 16, 2009
John J. Trammell (Minneapolis, MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm floored that I'm shelling out $100 for this textbook and the publisher make *no* errata available for download. I've been using this textbook for all of a week, and I've already found two mistakes in chapter 2 alone. Chapter 2 is stuff I already *know*. What am I supposed to do for material I'm learning?
 Helpful September 12, 2009
Gail Wagshall (Florida)
This book does a pretty good job of explaining the problems and how they got the answer. I would definitely recommend it.
 It is what it is July 20, 2009
K. Butler (USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is very good at what it sets out to do. It manages to efficiently and masterfully destroy any shred of interest and enthusiasm that a student may have for the subject of mathematical probability and statistics. At least that is what I figured the book set out to do after reading a few chapters. It is this feature that results in me finding the title most puzzling, as it seems to make the book out to be of an educational nature. How curious...
Very bad January 29, 2009
Brian Gordon
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book takes you through chapter after chapter of methodologies for solving specific types of problems without teaching you any fundamental concepts first. And by "takes you through" I mean a page or two telling you why you need that chapter, a page or two of inscrutable, barely-explained formulas, and pages of impossible exercises that test you on material nowhere to be found in the examples.
It's unbelievable to me how many errors there are in this book considering it's the eighth edition. When you're staring at the pages for hours trying to figure out how something works from the scant examples, nothing's worse than the suspicion that the book itself is wrong.
Profs, do not require this book!
Student Solutions Manual for Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists November 3, 2008
Jana Fuston (Portland, OR)
This student solutions manual has been very handy in my class. I have used it for all of the homework and it has helped considerably.
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