Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences

I have this book for my master program and I am glad I bought it. The explanation in the book are really great and easy to understand

It came in less than a week, good packaging, reliable to buy from this seller

Does a pretty good job of teaching statistics. Not too wordy, often explains the concepts pretty well, and the chapter examples often match the exercises. However, like most math books it often does not teach enough of the material to handle all of the exercises in a chapter. As math books go, it's pretty good, just not great. So I have to give it only 4 stars.

I am certain this book was not meant for engineering students. Everything in this book is written as if the reader already has mastered statistics and probability. There is little to no explanation on any of the topics, and I've encountered a number of end-of-unit questions that have no corresponding lesson or example. I have never felt this confused in my life!If you're stuck with a class that requires this book:1) Your instructor has probably been paid kickbacks by the publisher.2) Your instructor likely doesn't care if you understand the material, or if you even pass the class.3) Your instructor probably doesn't do very favorably on ratemyprofessor.comIf you're in an online class that requires this book:1) Consider changing your majorKhan Academy will save you hours of frustration when you're trying to complete homework and study for exams. This has been the only thing that has even remotely helped me through the first 3 chapters.

As expected.

the way the chapter section questions are structured, it's teaching you to follow steps rather than trying to teach you to think for yourself. often the question will be broken up into a, b, c, etc. it's clear by the end of the second chapter that in order to do the later parts of each question (i.e. e, d, c...), you needed to do the earlier parts (a, b, ...). but instead of asking you the last question first and letting you mull over how you would go about solving the problem, it tells you what the first step is (without even saying it's a step in a series of steps) and asks you to solve it. if you want to get more out of this book, in a given question, start at the last step (e, d, or whatever comes last) and try to solve it. if you can't figure it out, then go to an earlier step (e.g. from e to d, or d to c) until you find a step that you can solve (and then answer the remaining parts in forward fashion). you'll learn much more and be able to better think for yourself if you do it that way.there's no fluff or entertaining pictures/etc, as compared with Discrete Mathematics: Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning, which has more-engaging cartoons and drawings. this book has the perfunctory diagrams and graphs.San Jose State University uses this book as the standard text for its Math 161A classes (at least in Spring 2018).

Great quality! Needed this book for my college class and it was inexpensive compared to the one in my college bookstore

A very good book with clear explanation and helpful homework even though parts of them are hard or very hard.