Contents
Inside Front cover Index of Applications Examples and Exercises
Chapter 1 The Role of Statistics in Engineering
1-1 The Engineering Method and Statistical Thinking
1-2 Collecting Engineering Data
1-2.5 Observing Processes Over Time
1-3 Mechanistic and Empirical Models
1-4 Probability and Probability Models
2-2 Interpretations and Axioms of Probability
2-5 Multiplication and Total Probability Rules
Chapter 3 Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions
3-2 Probability Distributions and Probability Mass Functions
3-3 Cumulative Distribution Functions
3-4 Mean and Variance of a Discrete Random Variable
3-5 Discrete Uniform Distribution
3-7 Geometric and Negative Binomial Distributions
3-8 Hypergeometric Distribution
Chapter 4 Continuous Random Variables Probability Distributions
4-1 Continuous Random Variables
4-2 Probability Distributions and Probability Density Functions
4-3 Cumulative Distribution Functions
4-4 Mean and Variance of a Continuous Random Variable
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