Prepare Your Students for Statistical Work in the Real World Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences‎,‎ Sixth Edition is designed for a two‎-semester introductory course on statistics for students majoring in engineering or any of the physical sciences‎.‎ This popular text continues to teach students the basic concepts of data description and statistical inference as well as the statistical methods necessary for real‎-world applications‎.‎ Students will understand how to collect and analyze data and think critically about the results‎.‎New to the Sixth Edition * Many new and updated exercises based on contemporary engineering and scientific‎-related studies and real data * More statistical software printouts and corresponding instructions for use that reflect the latest versions of the SAS‎,‎ SPSS‎,‎ and MINITAB software * Introduction of the case studies at the beginning of each chapter * Streamlined material on all basic sampling concepts‎,‎ such as random sampling and sample survey designs‎,‎ which gives students an earlier introduction to key sampling issues * New examples on comparing matched pairs versus independent samples‎,‎ selecting the sample size for a designed experiment‎,‎ and analyzing a two‎-factor experiment with quantitative factors * New section on using regression residuals to check the assumptions required in a simple linear regression analysis The first several chapters of the book identify the objectives of statistics‎,‎ explain how to describe data‎,‎ and present the basic concepts of probability‎.‎ The text then introduces the two methods for making inferences about population parameters‎:‎ estimation with confidence intervals and hypothesis testing‎.‎The remaining chapters extend these concepts to cover other topics useful in analyzing engineering and scientific data‎,‎ including the analysis of categorical data‎,‎ regression analysis‎,‎ model building‎,‎ analysis of variance for designed experiments‎,‎ nonparametric statistics‎,‎ statistical quality control‎,‎ and product and system reliability‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ William M‎.‎ Mendenhall‎.‎ Terry L‎.‎ Sincich
• Publisher‎:‎ Chapman & Hall/CRC
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781498728850