I purchased this book as a supplement for my Graduate-level course. It covered much of the "Proof left as an exercise for the reader" material in the course text. I work with probability and statistics and I use this book as a back-up for when I forget or encounter a problem requiring knowledge of statistics more obscure than Mean, Median, and Mode. The author has abbreviated proofs for many formulae. The examples are clear and support the material. An Instructor's Solution Manual would be helpful for autodidacts like myself. This book is well worth the price. I recommend it for business people who need it for work and for graduate-level students in a course on probability and/or statistics.
Author(s): T. T. Soong
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 408
Cover\r......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 16
1:\rIntroduction......Page 18
Part A:\rProbability and Random Variables......Page 22
2:\rBasic Probability Concepts......Page 24
3:\rRandom Variables and Probability\rDistributions......Page 54
4:\rExpectations and Moments......Page 92
5:\rFunctions of Random Variables......Page 136
6:\rSome Important Discrete\rDistributions......Page 178
7:\rSome Important Continuous\rDistributions......Page 208
Part B:\rStatistical Inference, Parameter\rEstimation, and Model Verification......Page 262
8:\rObserved Data and Graphical\rRepresentation......Page 264
9:\rParameter Estimation......Page 276
10:\rModel Verification......Page 332
11: Linear Models and Linear Regression......Page 352
Appendix A: Tables......Page 382
Appendix B: Computer Software......Page 392
Appendix C: Answers to Selected\rProblems......Page 396
Subject Index......Page 406
