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Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists

Sheldon M. Ross
Publisher: 
Academic Press
Publication Date: 
2014
Number of Pages: 
686
Format: 
Hardcover
Edition: 
5
Price: 
110.00
ISBN: 
9780123948113
Category: 
Textbook
[Reviewed by
Fernando Q. Gouvêa
, on
11/28/2014
]

See our review of the fourth edition. The author tells us that the new edition contains the usual multiple small changes, new examples, and problems. There are four new sections, on the pareto distribution, prediction intervals, dummy variables for categorical data, and testing the equality of multiple probability distributions. 

Preface

Ch1 Introduction to Statistics

Ch2 Descriptive Statistics

Ch3 Elements of Probability

Ch4 Random Variables and Expectation

Ch5 Special Random Variables

Ch6 Distributions of Sampling Statistics

Ch7 Parameter Estimation

Ch8 Hypothesis Testing

Ch9 Regression

Ch10 Analysis of Variance

Ch11 Goodness of Fit Tests and Categorical Data Analysis

Ch12 non parametric HypothesisTests

Ch13 Quality Control

Ch14 LifeTesting

Ch15 Simulation, Bootstrap Statistical Methods, and Permutation Tests

Appendix of Tables

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Probability
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