Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences (with Student Suite Online) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jay L. Devore
Publisher: Duxbury Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 260416
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 7
Pages: 736
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0495382175
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.2
EAN: 9780495382171
Publication Date: January 26, 2007
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This comprehensive introduction to probability and statistics will give you the solid grounding you need no matter what your engineering specialty. Through the use of lively and realistic examples, the author helps you go beyond simply learning about statistics to actually putting the statistical methods to use. Rather than focus on rigorous mathematical development and potentially overwhelming derivations, the book emphasizes concepts, models, methodology, and applications that facilitate your understanding.
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 I still use this book 9 years after I took the class! November 6, 1999
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is chock full of examples which very cleanly illustrate each concept. Math books without examples are worthless in my opinion. There's answers to odd-numbered homework problems in the back, and there's plenty of graphical illustrations to show what is meant. Aside from my 101 Physics book, and Numerical Recipes, this book has got to be one of my most-used treasures.
Very good reference book, read carefully to learn concepts. February 25, 2005
Lily S. Cheung Chang (New York, USA)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book might seem to skim through all the contents but it's indeed really well developed. If you need to review for tomorrow's exam, you can find everything important in the boxes. If you are seeing the contents for first time, every needed explanation and deduction is available.
You can see that the math is done a little bit short, but nothing that you cannot figure out with a little bit of thinking (Weren't you studying anyway?).
I don't know why other people has been so harsh to this book, but I found it very usefull and I really learned from it. This book is slow read, if you don't read it thoughfully you won't get much of it. If you cannot recall simbols, it's simply because you didn't study it ;)
The are only three bad things. First, some problems refer to data from other problems, instead of printing the data again, which results confusing. Second, the language is a little awkward from time to time and a very technical, but once again, nothing that could not be figured out easily. And third, the book builds chapter over chapter. Terms are used throughout the whole book,and at the end of the book, you need to be familiar with everything before to understand. Anyway, I think it's more a problem of Prob & Statistics in general than of this book in particular.
"A Must Have" when using statistics or for your library July 28, 2000
Phil Banks (Ardmore, Pennsylvania United States)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
As an Operations Research Manager I am constantly employing statistical models in my work. Having sat through numerous undergraduate and graduate classes in statistics and stochastic systems (queueing, reliability analysis, and quality control...to name a few), I find this book the most used statistical reference book in my library!By using real data, Jay shows us how the topics apply to our everyday life. I remember this approach when I took his class (10 years ago)! Now if Jay could write more books on stochastic models!
Not for social sciences September 23, 2001
Barry van Setten (Hanau Deutschland)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I like this book a lot. It is comprehensive, clearly written and unlike many other text books it shows a lot of examples which chemists, material scientists may encounter in their daily work. The book is a must because of the examples.
Best Stats Book I've Read December 23, 2003
K. LIM (San Francisco, CA United States)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Being a non-math or stats major, I found this book to be fair and sufficient in its explanations and requirements. The other stats books I've seen have been overly difficult with unreasonably difficult problems that were never even touched upon in the examples. This book is for engineers and science majors, so I expected REAL examples and not just proofs and theorems that most of us engineers can't stand. One of the few textbooks that I won't use as a bedtime story and that's the best compliment you can give to a textbook.
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