Makes statistical methods easier and accessible to engineers. This book points the reader to the topics and sections pertinent to a particular type of statistical problem. It includes a CD-ROM that contains the Excel data sets for the examples and case studies given in the book, along with other statistical tools and software.
Contents
Introduction : probability and statistics -- Basic probability -- Descriptive statistics : summary numbers -- Grouped frequencies and graphical descriptions -- Probability distributions of discrete variables -- Probability distributions of continuous variables -- The normal distribution -- Sampling and combination of variables -- Statistical inferences for the mean -- Statistical inferences for variance and proportion -- Introduction to design of experiments -- Introduction to analysis of variance -- Chi-squared test for frequency distributions -- Regression and correlation.
