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Designed for students in various disciplines of engineering, science, mathematics, management and business, this effective study tool includes hundreds of problems with step-by-step solutions and another 150 problems with hints or delayed answers. The solved problems illustrate and strongly reinforce vital theory and techniques. Topics taught include functions of random variables; expectation and limit theorems; and estimation theory, decision theory and queuing theory.
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Tons of helpful solved examples.......2006-10-26
I wish I had this when I was taking my probability courses. It presents concepts in a clear and understandable way, and the solved problems provide excellent guidance. After working through the solved examples, I finally had a better understanding of random variables, pdfs, cdfs, random processes, etc. I would strongly encourage solving as many problems as you can in this book as you are going through other texts or taking a class on this. Reading through a textbook may lull you into thinking you already understand it, and waiting a long time for feedback on homework may make you more lost in class. Doing exercises will help identify your weaknesses and provide instant feedback on areas you may need to study more. With this stronger foundation, you can appreciate and understand better what the other texts are discussing.
THANK YOU SCHAUM"S!.......2006-05-14
This book is a GOD SEND. I have been utterly confused in my upper division probability course, but this book has so many great worked out problems that it worked out all my problems understanding the subject material. I thought I would fail the class, but I will probably get a B!
Essential supplement for any course in random processes.......2005-10-10
I used this book in conjunction with "Probability and Random Processes with Applications to Signal Processing" by Stark & Woods, and I would have to say that this Schaum's outline filled in the gaps nicely. Stark & Woods has a nice selection of exercises, but unfortunately there are no solutions to any of the problems in the book, so you have no way of knowing whether or not you have grasped the material. That is where this outline came in handy. It manages to cover all of the issues in random processes, including basic probability, random variables and multiple random variables, functions of random variables, convolution, estimation and decision theory, and queueing theory. Chapters five and six on the processing and analysis of random processes are particularly useful to those readers who are interested in applications to signal processing and communications theory. Each chapter has an excellent selection of exercises with solutions to test your knowledge. The only possible drawback of this text is that it often approaches the material from a mathematician's viewpoint more than that of an engineer. Therefore, there are quite a few proofs included as exercises that probably won't be that helpful for students of the applied sciences. The reader should already be comfortable with multivariable calculus as well as linear algebra to get the most from this book. Also, though chapter one reviews probability quite well, this should probably not be your first excursion into the subject. The only difficult part of random processes that I found this book a bit weak on was on the subject of functions of random variables. Again, this is probably because this text takes more of a mathematician's point of view and functions of random variables is more of an engineering subject.
A great exercise book.......2005-09-25
This book has many exercises with answers/solutions to each and every exercise covering a wide range of topics from probability. The book, however, should be used along with an appropriate probability textbook. An excellent companion to Hsu's book is the introductory text by Henk Tijms. This book contains many worked-out examples and exercises as well, but also explains why probability works and how it can be applied in practice. As engineering student, I learned a lot by using both books.
A great supplement to your text book.......2005-07-28
I love this book's great collection of solved examples and problem exercises. It will definitely improve your understanding and clear out a lot of doubts. I would not recommend it to be used as a sole textbook. There is simply not enough theoratical information. It is definitely a very good supplement to any classic text on probability and stochastics.
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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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Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics by Murray R Spiegel .......2007-09-19
Schaum's outline books are easy to read, including many
solved problems, and this book is no exception. I recommend
this book to anyone who begins learning statistics.
How can they teach you if they don't even know the right answers?.......2007-07-23
I have been using this book to review for the Actuarial exam, and though it has been a few years since I learned a lot of this, even I can see the blatant typos and errors. Basic editing is part of a decent book, and someone did a terrible job on this one. Aside from the typos in the text itself, far too many of the Solved Problems give a wrong answer! It has been maddening to sit and do and re-do these problems to check my work, and I feel that if the easier/beginning sections have this many problems, I will be screwed when I get to the more advanced sections and can't so easily spot the mistakes. I think it is ridiculous that someone put this book out there, trying to help people learn, and couldn't even double check that it provides correct information.
Self-study to enjoy.......2007-04-07
Like other mathematical editions of "Schaum's outlines" the second edition of "Probability And Statistics" is again a book, that is perfectly developed for self-study that leeds you to a fundamental understanding of probability and statistics. It is clearly arranged and many tests help you to understand everything of each chapter :-)
A great introduction to the subject & ideal for self-study.......2007-01-01
Probability and statistics can be difficult subjects for students, and this Schaum's outline is very helpful both for explaining the theory and showing lots of numerical examples and practice problems in these very much related disciplines. Since a knowledge of probability is necessary to thoroughly understand statistics, that subject is tackled first, in the first four chapters. Statistics is addressed in the last six chapters of the book. The narrative of this book is very thorough, and intersperses explanations with worked out examples throughout. The book starts with basic probability, moves on through random variables, expectation, and special probability functions such as the binomial and Poisson distributions. In the statistics half of the book, there are chapters on sampling and estimation theory, hypotheses testing, curve fitting, regression, correlation, variance analysis, and finally the more advanced topic of nonparametric testing. Appendices offer some valuable distributions and tables. Of course, if you need to study these subjects more in depth such as expectation and detection or random processes, you are going to need other books for further study. However, at just over 400 pages in length, this book provides a good introduction to the topics of probability and statistics for a fraction of what many less enlightening textbooks cost and it is ideal for self-study. I highly recommend it.
Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics.......2006-07-02
Great. It was delivered in a timely fashion and in excellent condition. The content is exactly what I wanted.
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- The updated and expanded second edition of the internationally bestselling guide to principles and practices for undergraduate business and economics students taking mandatory economics statistics courses. - Features four new sections—on nonparametric tests, the Logit Model, the Probit Model, and causality tests—complete with new models and tests used in financial econometrics, and a new chapter on time series econometrics - Over 100,000 students enrolled annually - Includes numerous examples, completely worked problems, supplementary problems, and two full-length self-examinations
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It got me through Econometrics.......2002-01-26
This was an extremely useful book for the understanding of Statistics and Econometrics. Each topic had examples to show how the formulas work. The computer chapter went over the programming in SAS, Excel, and Eviews for the problems in the book. Best of all, the problems had answers. This is a must-have for beginning statistics and econometrics since it starts from scratch, and for theory students in search of an application.
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This Schaum's Study Guide is the perfect tool for getting a handle on statistics. Fully stocked with solved problemsÑ508 of themÑit shows you how to work problems that may not have been fully explained in class. Plus you get 694 additional problems to use for practice, with answers at the back of the book. Ideal for independent study, brushup before exams, or preparation for professional tests, this Schaum's guide is clear, complete, and well-organized. It even prepares you for computer solutions of statistical problems, fully explaining the use of Minitab, the most popular statistical software. It's the perfect supplement for any course in statistics, and a super helper for the math-challenged.
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Effective refresher ... Efficient reference.......2007-01-07
I recommend this text to financial professionals I teach ... VERY helpful to clear the cobwebs several years after college!
Great for more advanced courses...........2006-12-12
I bought this book as a study aid for my Elementary Statistics class. Although the book does give you many examples to help solve, it gets a little too complicated for a beginning statistics class. It became hard to sort through the things I needed to gain a basic understanding of the fundamentals of statistics. If you are needing this book for your job or a more advanced statistics course, I would recommend it, but it's one for the beginner to leave alone.
Comprehensive Guide to Statistics.......2006-06-13
This excellent book provides a comprehensive look at statistical methods. It's a great reference guide with 19 chapters, each of which build nicely on one another.
Chapters 1 through 11 lay the foundation of statistical study and the reader should benefit greatly from this framework.
Specifically, Chapters 1 through 3 cover Variables and Graphs, Frequency Distributions and Mean-Median-Mode concepts. Chapters 4 through 6 move on to cover Standard Deviation, Skewness and Elementary Probability Theory. Chapter 7 then discusses Binomial, Normal and Poisson Distributions.
Chapters 8, 9, 10 and 11 delve into Sampling, Statistical Estimation, Statistical Decision and Small Sampling Theory.
The remaining chapters offer practical insights into such topics as Chi-Square test, Correlation Theory, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Time Series Analysis and Statistical Process Control. Much of this appears in the CFA curriculum and therefore is a worthy supplemental study.
True to its format, this Schaum's book helps readers via its question and answer format in each of its chapters. Going through these problems teaches and reinforces concepts taught in the first pages of each chapter in the book.
Great job authors! I'm hoping others will benefit from this book too.
Schaum's Outline of Statistics.......2006-03-03
This is a handy desk guide to statistics for someone who needs a statistical referemce as part of their job but is not a statistician, ie, performance management, data preparation or other information analysis. I compared this book to many others and found it the most comprehensive.
A Failed Attempt .......2005-01-12
This book is sloppily edited, with numerous typos in the equations. Page 91 has two symbolic errors plus a text error.
Overbar omitted twice on page 19 giving a nonsensical formula Z = (X - X)/s
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Schaum's Outline of Probability, Second Edition, focuses on non-calculus probability theory, making it ideal for humanities and science majors who study practical statistics for problem solving. This popular Schaum's study guide provides new material on descriptive statistics, hi-square distribution, and more.
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Excellent.......2006-11-18
I found this book a simple, concise, and fairly easy introduction to probability theory. Most of the text doesn't require knowledge of calculus or linear algebra, but the text can serve to motivate studying of calculus and linear algebra as it does have some parts and problems which need calculus. The inclusion of a separate chapter, for review or to learn some basics, on set theory also makes this text as it helps to show how set theory gets applied. The classical birthday problem comes as an interesting way to show how probability theory can help us compute probabilities we can't directly count, and how probability can lead to ideas that expand our thinking. The last chapter on Markov chains helps motivate knowledge of linear algebra and also might help one analyze board games such as Chutes and Ladders. The authors graph-theoretic diagrams can also help to motivate knwoledge of, and the relevance of graph theory, and how it has relations to linear and vector algebra.
The difficulty of the solved problems varies from "plug-and-chug" problems to proofs that require a decent dose of thinking, "untangling" of definitions, and drawing out of consequences. In my opinion, this makes the book neither too easy, nor too hard, and thus helps to facilitate enjoyment of the problems and insight. Since there exist many solved problems, one can fairly easily figure out where those errors occur. Even if you know lots of calculus I would still recommend this over Spiegel's Schaum for learning probability theory, as this book includes its chapter on Markov chains.
Schaum's Outline of Probability, 2nd Edition.......2005-09-08
This is a good book to have in your self for quick reference. I have many books from Schaum's Series and always found them handy at times. I am in the filed of science for so long that I have stopped counting years. Students and teachers all should have books such as these; students can learn a lot from the examples and apply the procedures discussed therein to different problems.
A note of warning -- do not expect tofind everything you are looking for in these books. However, it is safe bet that you will always find interesting problems that are solved in these books.
a weaker schaum's outline.......2003-05-12
Pitched to a weakish high school math background. Scant treatment of continuous random variables is one of several reasons this fails to achieve the comprehensiveness of other schaum's outlines. There may be courses where this is a good study aid (e.g. probability for poets), but it's a poor reference to basic probability for someone with a stronger math background.
Like other schaum's it is riddled with typographical errors and there is no errata. Eg. Appearing twice:
Correlation(X,Y) = Cov(X,Y) / E(X)E(Y).
Even at their worst, I still find the schaum's guides (this one included) better than a typical textbook with the same scope. This one, however, the problem is scope.
Better than most porbability texts.......2003-03-31
I believe this book is excellent, but I would supplement it with a book on probability (perhaps A First Course in Probability by Ross). It's introductory, easily-read, and offers theoretical foundations for most everything in the problems.
Too basic - non standard.......2003-03-10
I picked this book without realizing that it is meant for high school students. Thus the book is very basic and really only goes into Gaussian distributions.
My real complaint with this book is the notations used to represent some equations are non-standard. As well it is quite heavy on the mathematical shortcuts like
S={x:x is N C Z C R} which really means S is equal to x, such that x is a natural/positive integer contained in all integers positive or negative which is contained in all real numbers. (Whew!) The book seems to do this often. (trying to impress rather than teach?)
I felt its definition of random variables was poor and quite vague, and what little time is spent on them is single discrete random variables. Also the mathematical shortcuts are a nuisance since the non-standard notation being used, I found myself going back and wonder what capital Gamma and Phi were defined as.
There are millions of (easy) examples in this book, and as a graduate student this book had little to offer me except some frustration. I gave it 3 stars since I think that when I was in high school, the mathematical notation would have intimidated me, but it does have some useful examples. (I most likely would have given it 1 star back then)
If you are looking for a better book (Schaums) than this, try
Schaum's Outline of Probability, Random Variables, and Random Processes. This book covers everything up to multiple R.V's, and random processes, moment gen functions etc etc.
This book is just too basic and too complicated at the same time, but does have some value.
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Conforming to the current business statistics curriculum, this fourth edition of Schaum's Outline of Business Statistics reflects recent changes in the course as well as in general practice, including new sections in each chapter on the application of Excel--the most used program in offices throughout the world--making this the first book to address this change in the curriculum. The fourth edition continues to provide a direct and effective tool for learning the fundamentals of business statistics without the technical verbiage.
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Excellent book.......2007-09-23
very good book----I never read statistics before. Now I am securing A grade in weekly assignment refering this book
Not as sleepy as the average Statistics Book..........2007-05-14
But still as boring as watching grass grow! Honestly, the methodology of statistics/economics/finance/accounting, etc: is a major "yawn" for many. I personally excel at "applied economics", in other words, "How does this affect me/you/us?"
My professor used this book as a supplement to his "Statistics II" class, and it was "above average" in that regard, as was he.
Just remember, if you need this type of book to understand the methodology of "bean-counting", then this is better than any other I've seen in it's type. IT IS A VERY HARD SUBJECT, SO YOU MUST BREAK YOUR BACK AND CONCENTRATE- THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU TO DO THAT. THERE IS NO MAGIC-BULLET BOOK, that I know of, FOR STATISTICS II!!! STUDY HARD!!!
Easy to understand. Lots of exercises. .......2006-07-13
As a teacher I have found this book very practical for my students. It has plenty of resolved exercises, 100% of them focused on Business and Economics. Also this book introduces Statistics in a more "informal" way that makes it easier for a non-mathematician student to understand. It lacks strong statistic theory so if you are looking for a more profound book this is not what you would like to choose. But in terms of exercises is the best.
Great book to understand Statistics!.......2004-07-26
Another fine book by Schaum's outline. For anyone who has lost touch with the world of statistics, this book is a must read. It has clear definitions, examples and complicated explanations if you wish to dig deeper. I recommend this book to all college students, undergraduate and even MBA students. For financial analysis, marketing, and social research, this book is wonderful.
"Very poor in language.".......2004-07-12
"This is a poorly presented text in terms of language."
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This powerful study tool is ideal for students not majoring in math or the sciences who wish to master the basics for an introductory course or solo study. The clear explanations of fundamental concepts are illuminated by engaging examples from recent news items showing how these concepts are applied. Students follow along with this tutor through a wealth of problems with fully worked-out solutions. Many supplementary questions with answers let them check their comprehension and sharpen their problem-solving skills.
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Needed help and this book provided it 110%.......2002-09-16
Great book that explains the statstics concepts very well. Great book.
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Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series, for the student with limited time
What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its bigger predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights feature selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.
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Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series, for the student with limited time What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its bigger predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights feature selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.
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Google your Quant Question.......2005-12-13
If you must buy a stats book then I guess this would be as good as any other pocket reference guide. Why bother? There are enough fantastic websites with answers to your stats questions. Surf Amazon for a stats package reference book and like Excel, Minitab, SAS, etc. The title says it all: "Easy Outline." It's an accurate title, but the content isn't overly helpful. If you are completely new to Stats then you'll need more help than this book can give. If you are a bit rusty, then Google will have your answers.
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Picking up where Elements of Statistics I leaves off, this study guide clearly explains discrete probability distribution, including normal, continuing, sampling, and other distributions. The practical, cross-referenced problems throughout are drawn from such fields as anthropology, biology, business, government, medecine, psychology and sociology, and the solutions are fully explained. A perfect supplement to the leading textbooks, students will also find this book ideal for independent study. Supplementary questions aid self-testing.
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Not bad, but it could be better........2001-05-20
I've read some books of "Schaum's Outline" series and I think that this one is not so good. In my opinion, the principal area of the subject is "hypothesis testing" that is not well covered. Despite this, the "probability distributions" part is usefull.
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