Probability and Statistics for Modern Engineering (The Duxbury Advanced Series in Statistics and Decision Sciences)

Designed for calculus courses in engineering ststistics, this text emphasizes insight over rigour, practicality over mathematical elegance, and simplicity over formalism. Practical methods for problem solving, and problems and examples from real engineering data and situations are used throughout the text. Inferential statistics is emphasised to reflect the major use of statistics in engineering decision making.