Statistics and Probability with Applications for Engineers and Scientists, Preliminary Edition

CONTENTS

Part I

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Describing Data Graphically and Numerically

2.1 Getting Started With Statistics

2.2 Classification of Various Types of Data

2.3 Frequency Distribution Tables for Qualitative and Quantitative Data

2.4 Graphical Description of Qualitative and Quantitative Data

2.5 Numerical Measures of Quantitative Data

2.6 Numerical Measures of Grouped Data

2.7 Measures of Relative Position

2.8 Box-Whisker Plot

2.9 Measures of Association

2.10 Case Studies

2.11 Using JMP

Review Practice Problems

Chapter 3 Elements of Probability

3.1 Random Experiments, Sample Spaces, and Events

3.2 Concepts of Probability

3.3 Techniques of Counting Sample Points

3.4 Conditional Probability

3.5 Bayes’ Theorem

3.6 Introducing Random Variables

Review Practice Problems

Chapter 4 Discrete Random Variables and Some Important Discrete Probability Distributions

4.1 Graphical Descriptions of Discrete Distributions

4.2 Mean and Variance of a Discrete Random Variable

4.3 The Discrete Uniform Distribution

4.4 The Hypergeometric Distribution

4.5 The Bernoulli Distribution

4.6 The Binomial Distribution

4.7 The Multinomial Distribution

4.8 The Poisson Distribution

4.9 The Negative Binomial Distribution

4.10 Some Derivations and Proofs (Optional)

4.11 A Case Study

4.12 Using JMP

Review Practice Problems

Chapter 5 Continuous Random Variables and Some Important Continuous Probability Distributions

5.1 Continuous Random Variables

5.2 Mean and Variance of Continuous Random Variables ...