This is the standard textbook for courses on probability and statistics. 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.
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Customer Rating: Summary: Lots of examples, sparce content, horribly worded problems Comment: The content of each section starts with theory overview and then moves straight into detailed examples heavy in math details. I'm usually one that loves lots of examples but these are mostly useless as the problem statements in both the examples and end of the chapters are written like the author made them up at the last minute. Variable presented are undefined, numbers are reversed from intended or vague, too many assumptions are made and steps left out, and even his standardized variable definitions can get confusing as pointed out before (x, X, x', etc). By the way, the solutions are even worse.
All problems and examples are heavy in difficult math concepts. I know the book is on difficult concepts but it feels like the author likes showing off when the concepts can be explained and practiced in better ways.
The course I'm in is heavy on homework from the back of the book and the problems statements and solutions manual is driving me crazy. I'm tired of trying to read the authors mind and apply difficult concepts at the same time. Over all this book hopefully going to be more useful after this course as a reference then it's been as a learning tool.
Customer Rating: Summary: Good Book Comment: This is a good book for a subject that is simple but not easy. The author introduces the reader to fundamental concepts in probability with minimal mathematical abstraction and more examples than competing texts. This is the best book on the subject I have come across with the exception of the Schaum's Outline for probability and statistics. Customer Rating: Summary: Book is good but... Comment: The book is a solution set for "Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering". It has some solutions, but not all. I would say about 30% of the problems' answers are given, which is good; but it would be better if they can reduce the font size and include more answers. Customer Rating: Summary: Useless product Comment: buying this is one grave mistake I did..I thought this book will contain all solutions from text book or atleast good explanation to the existing solutions. it has nothing. 10-15 solutions from each chapter is not worth buying at this price. Those 10-15 solutions we can do if we want. The reason for buying solution manual is to have a quick review of all the questions before going to exam.Then what for is this. I strongly recommend not to buy this book. Customer Rating: Summary: Don't know why it's getting all these negative reviews... Comment: ...maybe I'm just dumb. This was the textbook for a senior/ first-year grad student EE probability course. I found it well-organized and well-written, with plenty of examples designed to illustrate and reinforce important concepts. I cannot answer as to its mathematical rigor, not being a mathematician, but as an engineer I found the derivations thorough (i.e., not a lot of skipped steps or hand waving). Yes, the homework problems at the end of the chapters were harder than the examples: aren't they supposed to be? And yes, not many answers were given in the back of the book, but the nature of the material is such that having the answer doesn't really help you. For worked problems, I highly recommend the Schaum's Outline (which saved my bacon on a number of homework problems).
I did very well in that course, and feel that reading this book gave me a firm grasp of the material.
