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Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists (8th Edition)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.02462
EAN: 9780131877115
Edition: 8
ISBN: 0131877119
Label: Prentice Hall
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 848
Publication Date: March 05, 2006
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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Editorial Review: 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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this comment refers to the previous edition of the walpole textbook solutions manual, not the most recent edition (2007?). it has been helpful. especially when the problems require the combination of 2 different probability distributions. most problems i've been assigned have been straightforward. but when you're stuck, and it's an odd problem, seeing how it's done can be very helpful.
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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?
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This book does a pretty good job of explaining the problems and how they got the answer. I would definitely recommend it.
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This book 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. I took a probability and statistics class where the teacher was in no way useful to me. As such, I was forced to rely on this book. I quickly gave up on attempting to obtain even a marginal understanding of the subject and resorted to blindly memorizing formulas and theorems in the hopes that I could deceive the grader into ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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