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Probability, Random Processes, and Estimation Theory for Engineers

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This book was my text book for a graduate level course in probability and I really found it useful.It is the type of book that makes you think and it won't explain every unnecessary detail. Specially I found the problems in the text book very well organized.

Quite easy to understand compared to other 'bible' books! My major is electronics. If you are a beginner of Probability, Statistics and Estimation Theory etc, and also majoring the engineering, see and check this book. This book helps me to understand the random process, and estimation theory. Though I'm not quite well awaring about the mathmatics, this book showed me the path.

I got a totally new book(older version). But it helped me alot and I received after almost 4-5 days of order. Amazon did really a good job!!!

Taking a EE grad course on Random Variables, I found this book to be unbelievably hard to read from. The material in the book is not written in a way that makes it easy to look things up. The funny thing is, the course I took was Professor Henry Stark's Class and I still had a very tough time looking to this book for answers to questions. I actually had to look at another book, a digital telecommuncations book, to get the answers to most of my questions. Don't buy this book, it is not very helpful.

I was quite disappointed in this book. It does equip you with useful tools for solving probability problems, although the organization at times leaves something to be desired. My primary complaint is that it has no value whatsoever as a reference. In practice, I often just want to know the functional form of a certain probability distribution; this book will describe methods to derive it, but you won't find the formula anywhere.

This book is very poorly organized and written. The first five chapters are so-so and the problems given the information in the text is good; though the constant strings of mathematical expressions (without text) makes it hard to follow. However, once you get to the seventh chapter and beyond the chapters give very little explanation of anything and the homework problems are often more suited for earlier chapters. For example, there are exercise problems that are in the Random Sequences chapter that belong in the Random Variables chapter (or earlier). It is not worth the money! The reason it is widely used is because there are only 2-3 books on this subject (for grad students)!!!