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| Miller & Freund's Probability and Statistics for Engineers (7th Edition) | 
| Authors: Richard Johnson, Irwin Miller, John Freund
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $137.33
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 85719
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 656
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 8.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0131437453
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.202462
EAN: 9780131437456
ASIN: 0131437453
Publication Date: August 27, 2004
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 this is not U.S. edition October 3, 2008
this is a Indian Reprint - RS 350.00 (Original US edition - RS 3362.00)
but there's no difference in content.
 jester3611 September 30, 2008
Be aware that you're purchasing a "Solutions Manual". The answers/solutions are to questions that are not in this book. The questions are in another textbook.
 One of the better statistics books November 3, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For the most part this is actually one of the better statistics books I have used. It's greatest strengths lie in the number of examples provided and the "Do's and Don'ts" at the end of each chapter. The narratives and proofs do a fairly decent job of introducing and developing new concepts and formulas, and there is generally a good segway from one topic to the next. If you have other statistics books like I do, this book actually does a good enough job deriving each distribution that things became clear here that I had always puzzled over in my other books. It is admittedly a bit distracting at times when an example references data from an earlier example in a previous chapter requiring you to bookmark pages with your fingers so that you can flip back and forth as you work through an example. In other areas, at times an example might skip a few steps which will require you to think through how they made the leap. Still, despite these shortcomings and the occassional errata, I still believe this is one of the better statistics textbooks.
Right Book, Arrived Quickly September 24, 2005
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
They send me the book I ordered, and it arrived long before the expected date. It was not the book I needed, but that was my own mistake.
Not Good July 18, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is probably the second worst textbook I have ever read. I have struggled through the third chapter. In some cases, the text seems as though it was written for elementary school math covering set therory: extremely detailed and excessively verbose. In other cases, the text throws out examples without explaining any reasoning, or any how or why a formula is used.
The text continually refers to examples in previous sections, which forces the reader to search back through the text. The interuption is distracting and annoying. In many cases, the page numbers where the example can be found are not given. The text also does this with the exercises, forcing the student to wear-out the pages. Sometimes, I feel as though I need two copies of the textbook so I don't waste so much time thumbing back and forth.
I have ended up reading and re-reading the text while trying to understand some of the concepts and rational. In some areas, the author does not explain anything. While other times, the text continues for pages explaining things that an elementry school graduate should know. I am waiting to see multiplication tables in future chapters. All the while, some college level information is brushed-over. I typically need to work several exercises and beat my head against the wall a few times until I go ah ha! Why didn't the author explain this.
With textbooks like this, it is no wonder engineers have a reputation for poor communication skills.
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