Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists (8th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers, Sharon L. Myers, Keying Ye
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 260841
Media: Hardcover
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
Publication Date: March 5, 2006
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Product Description
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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 An extraordinary text : precise , complete and expressive! July 21, 2004
Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was my battlehorse when I was an Engineer Industrial student in the eighties . Stiil I bought the second Edition , this one has a visible quality above the others . His nice presentation , the increased level of difficult in every chapter .
Useful for those Enginnering students , Pharmace, Administration in Pre Grade and Post Grade students .
The 6th Edition is among the best I've seen... February 8, 2006
Suzette Stoutenburg (Colorado Springs)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't have the 7th Edition, but the 6th Edition is helping greatly. The explanation of concepts are crystal clear and the examples make sense, are well explained.
 Worked a lot better for me than the others April 14, 2004
hummuslover (Columbia, Md United States)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I thought this was a pretty good text for an introduction to statistics with a modicum of calculus (I used the 5th edition). I am a biologist and had taken statistics without calculus (VERY cookbook approach the first time through) so maybe knowing where the math was eventually taking me was the difference. I am very (brutally) applied in my interest in statistics (use it daily to model fish populations, estimate critter abundance, etc.) so I could see where I would not agree with the mathematician who said it killed the beauty of the subject (although I am not gifted enough in math to see the beauty of statistics; I honestly would like to be). Also I did cover the text in two classes (1st up through calculating a confidence interval, 2nd on the general linear model) so that may have made a difference as well - if the others were forced to march through all of the material in the book in 18 weeks. I notice that a lot of the reviewers are computer scientists (ones in my class hated the subject matter - I was not sure why it was a required course for them anyway) or mathematicians. Anyone else out there from the natural or physical sciences (e.g., biology, chemistry, geology) that had experience with this book? Finally - I don't recall the plethora of errata that the others refer to - although I had previously heard this complaint about earlier editions of this book.
Engineering Specialist March 24, 2006
T. Nguyen
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
With an exception of Chapter 1, this book is well written, well organized with logical flow of subjects, and having practical example for every chapter's sub-topics. I found most of these examples are simple and very supportive for the understanding of mathematical expressions and that link the underline subject with real-world application. This book, in my opinion, is an excellent text for science and engineering students as well as for scientist or professional engineer who wants to achieve his or her self-study of the fundamentals of probability and statistics.
If Chapter 1 had provided a right level of abstract for an introduction of book's chapters and eliminated trivial / obvious errors (e.g. on pp. 9 and 10) in this chapter then, I believe, the reader's impression of the book would increase significantly.
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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