Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, Enhanced Review Edition

Jay Devore

Cengage Learning, Jan 29, 2008 - Mathematics - 768 pages

This market-leading text provides a comprehensive introduction to probability and statistics for engineering students in all specialties. This proven, accurate book and its excellent examples evidence Jay Devore’s reputation as an outstanding author and leader in the academic community. Devore emphasizes concepts, models, methodology, and applications as opposed to rigorous mathematical development and derivations. Through the use of lively and realistic examples, students go beyond simply learning about statistics-they actually put the methods to use.
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this book can teach you nothing. basically it's a workbook & assume that you know all the theory shit

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This book is probably one of the worst books to learn statistics from. The author uses the same examples over and over again and simple things are written in overly complicated ways.

About the author

Jay Devore is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at California Polytechnic State University. He earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley, spent a year at the University of Sheffield in England, and finished his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University. Jay previously taught at the University of Florida and at Oberlin College and has had visiting appointments at Stanford, Harvard, the University of Washington, New York University, and Columbia University. From 1998 to 2006, he served as Chair of the Statistics Department. In addition to this book, Jay has written several widely used engineering statistics texts and a book in applied mathematical statistics. He recently coauthored a text in probability and stochastic processes. He is the recipient of a distinguished teaching award from Cal Poly, is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and has served several terms as an Associate Editor of the "Journal of the American Statistical Association." In his spare time, he enjoys reading, cooking and eating good food, tennis, and travel to faraway places. He is especially proud of his wife, Carol, a retired elementary school teacher, his daughter Allison, who has held several high-level positions in nonprofit organizations in Boston and New York City, and his daughter Teresa, an ESL teacher in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, Enhanced Review Edition; Available 2010 Titles Enhanced Web Assign Series
• Author: Jay Devore
• Edition: 7
• Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2008
• ISBN: 0495557447, 9780495557449
• Length: 768 pages
• Subjects: Mathematics / Applied; Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / General; Technology & Engineering / Engineering (General)