Probability and statistics for engineering and the sciences 9th edition

Product Information

• Put statistical theories into practice with PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERING AND THE SCIENCES, 9th Edition. Always a favorite with statistics students, this calculus-based text offers a comprehensive introduction to probability and statistics while demonstrating how professionals apply concepts, models, and methodologies in today's engineering and scientific careers. Jay Devore, an award-winning professor and internationally recognized author and statistician, emphasizes authentic problem scenarios in a multitude of examples and exercises, many of which involve real data, to show how statistics makes sense of the world. Mathematical development and derivations are kept to a minimum. The book also includes output, graphics, and screen shots from various statistical software packages to give you a solid perspective of statistics in action. A Student Solutions Manual, which includes worked-out solutions to almost all the odd-numbered exercises in the book, is available.

Product Identifiers

• Publisher

  Cengage Learning

• ISBN-10

  1305251806

• ISBN-13

  9781305251809

• eBay Product ID (ePID)

  202443666

Product Key Features

• Author

  Jay L. Devore

• Publication Name

  Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences

• Format

  Hardcover

• Language

  English

• Publication Year

  2015

• Type

  Textbook

• Number of Pages

  768 Pages

Dimensions

• Item Length

  10.2in.

• Item Height

  1.2in.

• Item Width

  8.2in.

• Item Weight

  56.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

• Lc Classification Number

  Qa273.D46 2015

• Edition Number

  9

• Reviews

  The strengths are the material coverage (i.e. topics covered) and the engineering focus. I would describe this text as a reliable classic., This text has a great number of examples and exercises that are of high quality. Students enjoy doing the real world problems. I believe this is the text's greatest strength.

• Table of Content

  1. OVERVIEW AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS. Populations, Samples, and Processes. Pictorial and Tabular Methods in Descriptive Statistics. Measures of Location. Measures of Variability. 2. PROBABILITY. Sample Spaces and Events. Axioms, Interpretations, and Properties of Probability. Counting Techniques. Conditional Probability. Independence. 3. DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLES AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS. Random Variables. Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables. Expected Values. The Binomial Probability Distribution. Hypergeometric and Negative Binomial Distributions. The Poisson Probability Distribution. 4. CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLES AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS. Probability Density Functions. Cumulative Distribution Functions and Expected Values. The Normal Distribution. The Exponential and Gamma Distributions. Other Continuous Distributions. Probability Plots. 5. JOINT PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS AND RANDOM SAMPLES. Jointly Distributed Random Variables. Expected Values, Covariance, and Correlation. Statistics and Their Distributions. The Distribution of the Sample Mean. The Distribution of a Linear Combination. 6. POINT ESTIMATION. Some General Concepts of Point Estimation. Methods of Point Estimation. 7. STATISTICAL INTERVALS BASED ON A SINGLE SAMPLE. Basic Properties of Confidence Intervals. Large-Sample Confidence Intervals for a Population Mean and Proportion. Intervals Based on a Normal Population Distribution. Confidence Intervals for the Variance and Standard Deviation of a Normal Population. 8. TESTS OF HYPOTHESIS BASED ON A SINGLE SAMPLE. Hypotheses and Test Procedures. z Tests for Hypotheses About a Population Mean. The One-Sample t Test. Tests Concerning a Population Proportion. Further Aspects of Hypothesis Testing. 9. INFERENCES BASED ON TWO SAMPLES. z Tests and Confidence Intervals for a Difference between Two Population Means. The Two-Sample t Test and Confidence Interval. Analysis of Paired Data. Inferences Concerning a Difference between Population Proportions. Inferences Concerning Two Population Variances. 10. THE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE. Single-Factor ANOVA. Multiple Comparisons in ANOVA. More on Single-Factor ANOVA. 11. MULTIFACTOR ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE. Two-Factor ANOVA with Kij = 1. Two-Factor ANOVA with Kij >1. Three-Factor ANOVA. 2p Factorial Experiments. 12. SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION AND CORRELATION. The Simple Linear Regression Model. Estimating Model Parameters. Inferences About the Slope Parameter ?1. Inferences Concerning Yx* and the Prediction of Future Y Values. Correlation. 13. NONLINEAR AND MULTIPLE REGRESSION. Assessing Model Adequacy. Regression with Transformed Variables. Polynomial Regression. Multiple Regression Analysis. Other Issues in Multiple Regression. 14. GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTS AND CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS. Goodness-of-Fit Tests When Category Probabilities Are Completely Specified. Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Composite Hypotheses. Two-Way Contingency Tables 15. DISTRIBUTION-FREE PROCEDURES. The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test. The Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test. Distribution-Free Confidence Intervals. Distribution-Free ANOVA. 16. QUALITY CONTROL METHODS. General Comments on Control Charts. Control Charts for Process Location. Control Charts for Process Variation. Control Charts for Attributes. CUSUM Procedures. Acceptance Sampling.

• Copyright Date

  2016

• Target Audience

  College Audience

• Topic

  Engineering (General), Probability & Statistics / General, Statistics

• Dewey Decimal

  519.2

• Dewey Edition

  22

• Illustrated

  Yes

• Genre

  Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, Mathematics