TY - BOOK AU - Barnes, J. Wesley. TI - Statistical analysis for engineers: a computer - based aprroach SN - 138447888 AV - TA 340 .B37 1988 PY - 1988/// CY - New Jersey PB - Prentice-Hall KW - ENGINEERING -- STATISTICAL METHODS -- DATA PROCESSING N1 - Includes index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Probability: fundamental concepts and operational rules -- 3. Discrete random exercises -- 4. Continuous random variables -- 5. The mean, variance, expected value operator, and other functions of random variables -- 6. Classification and description of sample data -- 7. Sampling distributions: random sampling, the sample mean, and sample variance, the central limit theorem. N2 - The textual con tent of the book is directed at junior and senior undergraduate engineering students. As such, the book is applications oriented, and most theoretical arguments are approached from an intuitive level rather than from the viewpoint of rigorous mathematical proofs ER -