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PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS provides a one-semester, calculus-based introduction to engineering statistics that focuses on making intelligent sense of real engineering data and interpreting results. Traditional topics are presented thorough an accessible modern framework that emphasizes the statistical thinking, data collection and analysis, decision-making, and process improvement skills that engineers need on a daily basis to solve real problems. The text continues to be driven by its hallmark array of engineering applications--thoroughly expanded and modernized for the 5th edition--which tackle timely, interesting, and illuminating scenarios that show students the rich context behind the concepts. Within the presentation of topics and applications the authors continually develop students' intuition for collecting their own real data, analyzing it with the latest graphical tools, and interpreting the results with a goal of improving quality control and problem-solving process. Students will not only gain solid understanding of concepts and their real-life practicality, but will learn to become active statistical practitioners for their own future careers.
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Index of Applications in Exercises and Examples Ex: Example; Exc: Exercise Business accounting practices: Exc 5.77 aerospace companies: Exc 1.9 earnings/salaries: Exc 2.56, Exc 2.62, Exc 5.2, Exc 6.46, Exc 12.11 annual fuel consumption: Ex 2.5 brand preference: Exc 5.105 contracts: Exc 4.16, Exc 4.37, Exc 7.1 cost estimates: Exc 5.20, Exc 12.28, Exc 12.40 crude oil prices: Exc 2.12, Exc 11.6, Exc 11.20 customer’s arrival/waiting: Exc 5.59–5.61 education, employment, and income: Exc 2.15, Exc 7.31, Exc 10.115 electric energy retail sales: Exc 2.3 employees performance: Exc 7.9–7.10, Exc 11.51 employment: Ex 4.8, Ex 4.22, Ex 4.38, Ex 4.42, Exc 4.49, Exc 5.72, Exc 8.35, energy-saving plans for apartments: Exc 12.32 engineer’s working time: Exc 10.96 fabric defects: Exc 10.79 fire damage cost: Exc 7.26 flextime affecting job satisfaction: Exc 12.16 food market: Exc 11. 36 fuel/utility costs: Exc 2.7, Exc 2.51, Exc 11.38, Exc 11.61 gas mileage: Exc 9.59, Exc 10.53 hydroelectric power consumption: Exc 2.9 imperfections in the weave of a certain textile: Exc 5.62–5.63 income related issues: Exc 1.3, Exc 1.37, Exc 5.28 industrial adoption process: Exc 12.58 industrial engineering: Exc 5.104, Exc 6.26, Exc 6.34, Exc 6.48, Exc 7.21–7.24, Exc 8.34 left-turn at a specified intersection: Exc 5.99–5.100 level of productivity: Exc 11.76 location for new retail business: Exc 12.54 long-distance phone charges: Exc 12.30, Exc 12.42 lottery coupons: Exc 5.115 management by objectives (MBO): Exc 12.9 motor sales: Exc 5.37 oil imports: Exc 2.20, Exc 2.26 package delivery services: Exc 12.31, Exc 12.43 pay incentive structure: Exc 11.73 potential customers at retail outlets: Exc 4.10 product quality/time: Ex 11.26, Exc 11.39, Exc 11.90 profit/cost measures: Exc 11.46 profit in retail grocery: Exc 6.14, Exc 7.57 public-private partnership: Exc 1.4 purchasing/selling: Exc 5.15, Exc 5.36, Exc 5.69–5.70, Exc 8.29, Exc 11.4, Exc 11.18, Exc 11.26, Exc 11.41 repair times/costs: Exc 5.35, Exc 6.120, Exc 6.43, Exc 7.32–7.33, Exc 8.76–8.77, Exc 9.87 research and development (R&D) expenditures: Exc 2.8 salary discrimination: Exc 11.53 selling price of house: Ex 11.11–11.13, Ex 11.22 service times for customers: Exc 6.53, Exc 8.16–8.17, Exc 8.26, Exc 8.52 shipping contracts: Exc 6.16 sick-leave policy/time: Exc 6.65, Exc 10.73 stocks of items: Exc 5.18, Exc 5.113, Exc 7.45, Exc 7.60 strikes in manufacturing industries: Exc 12.34 tax revenue: Exc 1.26, Exc 1.30, Exc 2.17, Exc 2.23, Exc 2.29, Exc 2.45 travel times plan: Exc 12.64 work scheduling: Exc 1.18, Exc 12.61 Chemical and Biological Engineering absorption and scattering of aerosol particles: Exc 12.72 acid gase