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Stephens, Larry J.. Engineering Statistics Demystified. US: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007.

Engineering Statistics Demystified

Authors: Larry J. Stephens

Published:  2007

ISBN: 9780071710893 0071462724
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1 Treatment of Data Using EXCEL, MINITAB, SAS, SPSS, and STATISTIX
  • 1.1 Graphical Displays of Data
  • 1.2 Descriptive Measures of Data
  • 1.3 Measures of Relative Standing
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER 2 Probability
  • 2.1 Sample Space, Events, and Operations on Events
  • 2.2 The Multiplicative Rule, Permutations, and Combinations
  • 2.3 Probability
  • 2.4 The Axioms of Probability
  • 2.5 Some Elementary Theorems (Rules) of Probability
  • 2.6 Conditional Probability
  • 2.7 Bayes’ Theorem
  • 2.8 Mathematical Expectation
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER 3 Probability Distributions for Discrete Random Variables
  • 3.1 Random Variables
  • 3.2 The Mean and Standard Deviation of a Probability Distribution
  • 3.3 Chebyshev’s Theorem
  • 3.4 The Binomial Distribution
  • 3.5 The Hypergeometric Distribution
  • 3.6 The Geometric Distribution
  • 3.7 The Negative Binomial Distribution
  • 3.8 The Poisson Distribution
  • 3.9 The Multinomial Distribution
  • 3.10 Simulation
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER 4 Probability Densities for Continuous Random Variables and Introduction to MAPLE
  • 4.1 Continuous Random Variables
  • 4.2 The Normal Distribution
  • 4.3 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution
  • 4.4 The Uniform Distribution
  • 4.5 The Log-Normal Distribution
  • 4.6 The Gamma Distribution
  • 4.7 The Beta Distribution
  • 4.8 The Weibull Distribution
  • 4.9 Joint Distributions—Discrete and Continuous
  • 4.10 Checking Data for Normality
  • 4.11 Transforming Observations to Near Normality
  • 4.12 Simulation
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER 5 Sampling Distributions
  • 5.1 Populations and Samples
  • 5.2 The Sampling Distribution of the Mean (s Known)
  • 5.3 The Sampling Distribution of the Mean (s Unknown)
  • 5.4 The Sampling Distribution of the Proportion
  • 5.5 The Sampling Distribution of the Variance
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER 6 Inferences Concerning Means
  • 6.1 Point Estimation
  • 6.2 Interval Estimation
  • 6.3 Basic Concepts of Testing Hypotheses
  • 6.4 Testing Hypothesis About a Single Mean
  • 6.5 The Relationship between Tests of Hypothesis and Confidence Intervals
  • 6.6 Inferences Concerning Two Means—Independent and Large Samples
  • 6.7 Inferences Concerning Two Means—Independent and Small Samples
  • 6.8 Inferences Concerning Two Means—Dependent Samples
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER 7 Inferences Concerning Variances
  • 7.1 The Estimation of Variances
  • 7.2 Hypotheses Concerning One Variance
  • 7.3 Hypotheses Concerning Two Variances
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER 8 Inferences Concerning Proportions
  • 8.1 Estimation of Proportions
  • 8.2 Hypotheses Concerning One Proportion
  • 8.3 Hypotheses Concerning Two Proportions
  • 8.4 Hypotheses Concerning Several Proportions
  • 8.5 The Analysis of r × c Tables
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • Final Examinations
  • Final Examination One
  • Final Examination Two
  • Solutions to Chapter Exercises and Final Exams
  • Bibliography
  • Index