- Posted on January 22, 2012
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Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes For Electrical Engineering (3rd Edition)
This is the standard textbook for courses on probability and statistics, not substantially updated. While helping students to develop their problem-solving skills, the author motivates students with practical applications from various areas of ECE that demonstrate the relevance of probability theory to engineering practice. Included are chapter overviews, summaries, checklists of important terms, annotated references, and a wide selection of fully worked-out real-world examples. In this edition, the Computer Methods sections have been updated and substantially enhanced and new problems have been added.
I am a senior in Computer Science and this book was used as a text book for our Probability class. Our class was very unhappy with it. The author is a very intelligent person, but our class had a hard time keeping up with him. Many of the complex problems refer to equations, tables, and more importantly previous problems that had been touched briefly on 20 or more pages previously. All of the tables were given only once and in a few cases, Chapter 5 problems have you flipping back to Chapter 3 just to read a table. This meant we were constantly flipping pages back and forth to try and read the material.There were also errors in the book that I couldn't believe hadn't been caught by now. Many of the errors are difficult to catch as a student because they fall in equation definitions that are only given once. One error had a double integral misdefined.The author also assumes that the students can identify Taylor series expansions, geometric, and e^x by solving discrete summations, which to be honest I would have appreciated the author going thru at least one example, or giving the student some tips on identifying these.The notation in this book is also confusing. Many of the problems deal with finding the double integral of a function that invloves 'x' and 'y' yet the author uses X and Y to denote a random variable from the respective functions, therefore the book is riddled with equations that sometimes have x, X, and x' all meaning completely different things. This was extremely…