Miller and Freund's Probability and Statistics for Engineers (6th Edition)

Rating:
Summary: A poor quality book
Review: For 6th edition:

One may use this book as a handbook for some statistical problems. However, I find it very poor in terms of reading it from scratch. Moreover, many important issues are not covered, and those covered are not very analysed.

i.e. I cant find the transformation of stochastic variables, The properties of the gaussian d. are not fully covered. No Rayleigh or Rice distribution? After all I am not sure this book is for engineers.

Rating:
Summary: Very good book
Review: The probability and statistics for engineeting book provides a very good first book on probability and statistics. It is very useful to engineers and scientists that need to analyse and interpret data. It has a very good material on statistical inference and on quality and reliability. I strongly recommend this book.

Rating:
Summary: Shoddy, WAY overpriced piece of junk
Review: This is truly the worst "math" book I've ever used. Too many very important pieces of information are just incidentally glossed over in the text, which is often vague (as if it assumes you know statistics already). As if the vagueness of the material were not bad enough, the homework problems do not provide a sufficient challenge to allow you to see if you actually understand the material after reading it (note to authors, EXAMS ARE NEVER JUST PLUG AND CHUG). Hmmm... vague text and poor test of comprehension in the homework problems, sounds like a disaster waiting to happen if it isn't the case that you've had some statistics before(maybe if you have a good professor this may not be necessary, mine was horrendously bad and that made me depend all the more on this piece of garbage). Oh yeah, before I forget, the price is absurd for such a poor quality, and thin book. If you can, please search hard for a good book before suffering with this piece of work,even the schaum's outlines can be a bigger help than this (and they're not that great themselves.)