Probability and Statistics for Engineers

by Scheaffer, Richard L.; McClave, James T.

• ISBN13: 9780534209643
• ISBN10: 0534209645
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-04
• Publisher: Duxbury Press

Summary

Designed to teach engineers to think statistically so that data can be collected and used intelligently in solving real problems, this text is intended for calculus-based, one-semester introduction to engineering statistics courses. Although traditional topics are covered, this edition takes a modern, data-oriented, problem-solving, process-improvement view of engineering statistics. The emphasis is on collecting good data through sample surveys and experiments and on applying it to real problems.

Table of Contents

1. Data and Decisions

2. From Data Tables to Disk to Discrete Probability

3. Discrete Probability Distributions

4. Continuous Probability Distributions

5. Multivariate Probability Distributions

6. Statistics, Sampling Distributions, and Control Charts

7. Properties of Point Estimates

8. Hypothesis Testing

9. Simple Regression

10. Multiple Regression Analysis

11. Design of Experiments and the Analysis of Variance

12. Nonparametric Statistics

Appendix A

The Matrix Formulation of Multiple Regression

Appendix B

More on Probability and Modeling Fitting

Appendix C

Answers to Selected Exercises

Appendix D

Tables