Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists Sixth Edition

Sheldon M. Ross

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dc.contributor.author	Sheldon M. Ross
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-28T13:04:00Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-28T13:04:00Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-12-824346-6
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.250.8.41:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/46082
dc.description.sponsorship	The sixth edition of this book continues to demonstrate how to apply probability theory to gain insight into real, everyday statistical problems and situations. As in the previous editions, carefully developed coverage of probability motivates probabilistic models of real phenomena and the statistical procedures that follow. This approach ultimately results in an intuitive understanding of statistical procedures and strategies most often used by practicing engineers and scientists. This book has been written for an introductory course in statistics or in probability and statistics for students in engineering, computer science, mathematics, statistics, and the natural sciences. As such it assumes knowledge of elementary calculus. Organization and coverage Chapter 1 presents a brief introduction to statistics, presenting its two branches of descriptive and inferential statistics, and a short history of the subject and some of the people whose early work provided a foundation for work done today. The subject matter of descriptive statistics is then considered in Chapter 2. Graphs and tables that describe a data set are presented in this chapter, as are quantities that are used to summarize certain of the key properties of the data set. To be able to draw conclusions from data, it is necessary to have an understanding of the data’s origination. For instance, it is often assumed that the data constitute a “random sample” from some population. To understand exactly what this means and what its consequences are for relating properties of the sample data to properties of the entire population, it is necessary to have some understanding of probability, and that is the subject of Ch	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Elsevier Inc	en_US
dc.title	Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists Sixth Edition	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US