Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists

by Anthony J. Hayter

Book Overview

The new edition of Anthony Hayter's book continues in the same student-oriented vein that has made previous editions successful. Because Tony Hayter teaches and conducts research at a premier... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534386695
• ISBN13: 9780534386696
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Duxbury Resource Center
• Length: 916 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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Jon Davis

as was mentioned Hayter is an ISyE professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. FYI i'm an ISyE student at the GIT. The Good: The explanation of the theory and examples are excellent, (and i really don't do well with P-theory naturally) and what i really like is the kind of examples he uses: machine breakdowns, part failures, fabrication tolerences etc...i had another intro stats book that never broke away from colored balls and die and cards...also the solutions manual that goes along with the book does better than average at actually showing you how the problem was solved and includes a lot of prose explanation along with the math. The Bad: part of the bad is good, which is he revisits the same examples throughout the book so you are already very familiar with the scenario (ie..in chapt 2 there is an example considering metal cylinder thickness, and the same example, same pmf or pdf and numbers, etc will be used in chapter three to illustrate more complex ideas)...the bad part is that he doesn't restate the original scenario in the problems at the end of the section so you have to flip back and find it to remember what the distribution was or what the state space or any of the specifics of the problem....and this can become cumbersome when in problem after problem you have to go back and look up the details... i know this is saving redundant printing; maybe i'm just lazy

Awesome presentation, great examples!

This book is the best book I've encountered for explaining the fundamentals of probability and statistics. The arrangement of topics is right on the money and the explanations are clear. The book's most impressive feature, however, is the large number of example problems and the illustrations that go with them. This book will be refreshing to those students disgusted by the esoteric (or at least confusing) style found in most other university statistics books, yet Hayter still manages to provide enough of the mathematical details to avoid "watering down" the content.

Possibly the Best!

I used Walpole's piece of $hit book for my Prob/Stat for Engineer's class at UC San Diego...this book saved me and provided me with the means to get a good grade and actually learn the material.

too bad the title limits its audience

I teach statistics and research methods to political science and public administration/policy students, and I've found this book to be the best comprehensive text on introductory statistics. It beats all statistics texts I've seen written for the social sciences. It's too bad the title of this text and its examples limit its audience, because social science classes could use its clear explanations of the methods.