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1 Introduction to Probability and Counting 1.1 Interpreting Probabilities 1.2 Sample Spaces and Events 1.3 Permutations and Combinations 2 Some Probability Laws 2.1 Axioms of Probability 2.2 Conditional Probability 2.3 Independence and the Multiplication Rule 2.4 Bayes' Theorem 3 Discrete Distributions 3.1 Random Variables 3.2 Discrete Probablility Densities 3.3 Expectation and Distribution Parameters 3.4 Geometric Distribution and the Moment Generating Function 3.5 Binomial Distribution 3.6 Negative Binomial Distribution 3.7 Hypergeometric Distribution 3.8 Poisson Distribution 4 Continuous Distributions 4.1 Continuous Densities 4.2 Expectation and Distribution Parameters 4.3 Gamma Distribution 4.4 Normal Distribution 4.5 Normal Probability Rule and Chebyshev's Inequality 4.6 Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution 4.7 Weibull Distribution and Reliability 4.8 Transformation of Variables 4.9 Simulating a Continuous Distribution 5 Joint Distributions 5.1 Joint Densities and Independence 5.2 Expectation and Covariance 5.3 Correlation 5.4 Conditional Densities and Regression 5.5 Transformation of Variables 6 Descriptive Statistics 6.1 Random Sampling 6.2 Picturing the Distribution 6.3 Sample Statistics 6.4 Boxplots 7 Estimation 7.1 Point Estimation 7.2 The Method of Moments and Maximum Likelihood 7.3 Functions of Random Variables--Distribution of X 7.4 Interval Estimation and the Central Limit Theorem 8 Inferences on the Mean and Variance of a Distribution 8.1 Interval Estimation of Variability 8.2 Estimating the Mean and the Student-t Distribution 8.3 Hypothesis Testing 8.4 Significance Testing 8.5 Hypothesis and Significance Tests on the Mean 8.6 Hypothesis Tests 8.7 Alternative Nonparametric Methods 9 Inferences on Proportions 9.1 Estimating Proportions 9.2 Testing Hypothesis on a Proportion 9.3 Comparing Two Proportions: Estimation 9.4 Coparing Two Proportions: Hypothesis Testing 10 Comparing Two Means and Two Variances 10.1 Point Estimation 10.2 Comparin

This well-respected text is designed for the first course in probability and statistics taken by students majoring in Engineering and the Computing Sciences. The prerequisite is one year of calculus. The text offers a balanced presentation of applications and theory. The authors take care to develop the theoretical foundations for the statistical methods presented at a level that is accessible to students with only a calculus background. They explore the practical implications of the formal results to problem-solving so that students gain an understanding of the logic behind the techniques as well as practice in using them. The examples, exercises, and applications were chosen specifically for students in engineering and computer science, and include opportunities for real data analysis.