Selling over 220,000 copies in its first edition, Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics has become a vital resource for the more than 977,000 college students who enroll in related probability and statistics courses each year. Its big-picture, calculus-based approach makes it an especially authoriatative reference for engineering and science majors. Now thoroughly update, this second edition includes vital new coverage of order statistics, best critical regions, likelihood ratio tests, and other key topics.
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Master probability and statistics with Schaum'sthe high-performance study guide. It will help you study efficiently, develop problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams!
Students love Schaum's Outlines because they produce results. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students improve their test scores and final grades with these indispensable study guides.
If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, use this book to:
- Brush up before tests
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- Get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks
Schaum's Outlines give you the information your teachers expect you to know in a handy and succinct formatwithout overwhelming you with unnecessary detail. You get a complete overview of the subject. Plus, you get plenty of practice exercises to test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum's let you study at your own pace and remind you of all the important facts you need to rememberfast! And Schaum's are so complete, they're perfect for preparing for graduate or professional exams.
Inside you will find:
- 760 fully-worked problems with step-by-step solutions
- Hundreds of additional practice problems with answers
- Coverage of all course fundamentals
- Easy-to-understand methodology
If you want top grades and a thorough understanding of probability and statistics, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! Chapters include:
- Basic Probability
- Random Variables & Probability Distributions
- Mathematical Expectation
- Special Probability Distributions
- Sampling Theory
- Estimation Theory
- Tests of Hypotheses & Significance
- Curve Fitting, Regression, & Correlation
- Analysis of Variance
- Nonparametric Tests
About the Author
John J. Schiller, is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Temple University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and has published research papers in the areas of Riemann surfaces, discrete mathematics biology. He has also coauthored texts in finite mathematics, precalculus, and calculus.
Alu Srinivasan is Professor of Mathematics at Temple University. He received an M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Wayne State University, and was Chair of Temple's Mathematics Department from 1990 to 1998. His primary research interests are in applied and mathematical statistics, combinatorics and probability. He has published some seventy papers in these areas and has supervised a dozen Ph.D. dissertations in statistical inference and biostatistics.
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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
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Absolutely Great for Self-Study and Understanding,
This review is from: Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics (Paperback)
This is a completely outstanding work by an outstanding author. I have used this book for years, and again and again find myself turning to it for essential summaries and derivations of key results. Evidently some reviewers have not even caught on to the fact that the proofs of all the theorems are in the solved problems! (This is my first Amazon review, but I cannot allow the injustice perpetrated by some other reviewers to stand.)
All of the (few) typos of concern to some reviewers are in the "supplementary problems", and by the time you've got there you'll have no little confidence in your own answers and in your own ability. This is *the* probability and statistics book for me because the proofs are presented with minimum formality in order to maximize understanding of the main ideas. Want to know how to *derive* the chi-square distribution or how to add or multiply random variables? You'll find no clearer or more succinct presentation anywhere. The first two chapters are also suitable for beginners. Copious examples (as thoughout) attend the presentations of (elementary) set theory, probability axioms, and combinatorics. The supplementary problems, always optional, however, do contain intermediate level challenges. The book is entirely self-contained, and though it is of course true that extra books always help, it's the best single-source. It's ideal for self-study, as are all of Murray Spiegel's Schaum Outlines.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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huh?,
By esseyo (Jersey City, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics (Paperback)
Most books have errors and typos. This book is no exception but I am curious as to why some reviewers think that nothing is proven. Of course some theorems are not proven rigorously which they can't be at this level but most proofs exist. If you are confused about Jacobians, then maybe you should also reference a calculus book because Spiegel expects that you know what that is.
This is an excellent book to refresh your knowledge of intro probability and statistics but assumes you are proficient in calculus.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Practical way to become proficient in problem solving,
By "gebenter44" (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics (Paperback)
I have used this book to teach myself statistics and probability theory in a relatively short period of time. The essentials are well laid out and reinforced with plenty of examples and exercises. I would recommend using a Schaum outline authored by Murray Spiegel for becoming proficient in problem solving in that particular area. I got started this way after reading the book, Indiscrete Thoughts by Gian Carlo Rota.
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mean breaking strength, hypothesis that the coin, defective bolts, heads inclusive, class interval size, joint probability function, hypotheses and significance, total shaded area, sampling distribution, joint density function, population correlation coefficient, moment generating function, single toss, ordinary deck, following decision rule, required probability, mathematics grades, marginal density function, fair dice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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mean breaking strength, hypothesis that the coin, defective bolts, heads inclusive, class interval size, joint probability function, hypotheses and significance, total shaded area, sampling distribution, joint density function, population correlation coefficient, moment generating function, single toss, ordinary deck, following decision rule, required probability, mathematics grades, marginal density function, fair dice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Work Problem, Prove Theorem, Supplementary Problems, Solved Problems, Degrees of Variation Freedom Mean Square, United States, Solve Problem, Variation Degrees of Freedom Mean Square, Use Chebyshev, Use Problem New!
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- Biometrika Tables for Statisticians by E. S. Pearson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural and Medical Research by Ronald A. Fisher in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Indiscrete Thoughts by Gian-Carlo Rota in Front Matter
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