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Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences (with Student Suite Online)

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Too wordy. The book is written as though we all have the time to read everything cover to cover. For those juggling 12+ hours of senior year engineering classes and labs along with work, this obviously is not the best text for seriously learning probability and statistics quickly and effectively.

As a math tutor, it is books like this that make me cringe, as many students have trouble trying to refer to lengthy text when they try to resolve issues on their own. I see way too many students who end up resorting to tutors due to books written like this--not a good sign at all.

Devore would help all of us if he would put more things in clear point-form, have more summarized text, and save anecdotal examples for the example section. If you are assigned this textbook for your class, I highly recommend purchasing the student solution manual--that book is a lifesaver and will help you check your homework. I also recommend any supplemental books such as those by REA and Schaum's to help you better understand the material. Having a statistics tutor would also help if your teacher is not too hot at explaining stuff because you surely can't count on this book for much assistance! Good luck...

This is, by far, the worst textbook that I have ever had.
It is written for the author's colleagues, not for students.
If there is a clear and concise way of explaining a concept, DeVore will do the opposite. Examples in the text of each chapter are re-workings of poorly explained definitions. The exercises at the end of each chapter are completely disconnected from the examples in each chapter.
YOU WILL NOT LEARN FROM THIS BOOK. It is a reference book, good for those who are already very familiar with probability and statistics, not a textbook.
Also, I'm suspicious of professors who write new editions every four or five years. Why does the wheel have to be re-invented so often?$?$?

The author suck in explaining, everything in the book, from deffinition to example are difficult to understand. The words he used, the sentense structure don't make sense most of the time, 98%. Too bad my professor chose this textbook, I want to throw it away many time when reading it because things just don't make sense. An example, a section about stem-and-leaf display, I don't understand it at all, no matter how many time I read that section, I finally got it after reading a quick tutorial on the web for just a few minutes. I spent almost two hour trying to understand it from this book. Cra..zy.

We only used the first 4 chapter for this course. Most of the examples are good. The book assumes some prior knowledge of math and statistics but other than that is good.

I love this book. It works out every single steps. It does not skip straight to the answer. So, even if you don't understand the theories, you can still do well in your class. Simply follow the examples and do the same thing in the homework.

For instance, I used Probability and Statistics written by DeGroot for my undergrad stat course. It contains paragraphs of theories and proofs. It is not helpful when you want to know how to solve homework problems. This book's examples is helps me on homework and tests.

This book boxes the important formulas. When you want to look for a formula, you can easily identify them in the blue boxes.

This book does not require you to have a rich math background. It works out the integrals and derivatives, so, anyone interested in statistics should be able to pick up this book and start learning!

So far, so good! (Using it this semester in class.) I don't do many online purchases, but getting this book cheaper than the campus bookstore proved to be a good experience for me. The book arrived in a timely manner and is in good shape.

I would purchase from this seller again. The book arrived ON the date promised and was in better condition than mentioned. I had a positive experience with this book-seller. I'm keeping their information for my future purchases.

I definitely recommend this seller and although shipping could have been faster (only had one option) or maybe given the customer the choice of picking their own shipping method, the book was in great condition with barely any marks! I would definitely buy from this seller again.