Overview
- Developed from tried and tested course material, this book provides a self-contained course that is also suitable for self-study
- Uses real examples and real data sets that will be familiar to students
- Features quick exercises to give direct feedback to the student, and over 350 exercises
- Includes an introduction to the bootstrap, a modern method that is often missing in other books
- Includes full solutions to half the exercises given in the book; solutions to the rest are provided on an accompanying website
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Request lecturer material: sn.pub/lecturer-material
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Statistics (STS)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Many current texts in the area are just cookbooks and, as a result, students do not know why they perform the methods they are taught, or why the methods work. The strength of this book is that it readdresses these shortcomings; by using examples, often from real life and using real data, the authors show how the fundamentals of probabilistic and statistical theories arise intuitively.
A Modern Introduction to Probability and Statistics has numerous quick exercises to give direct feedback to students. In addition there are over 350 exercises, half of which have answers, of which half have full solutions. A website gives access to the data files used in the text, and, for instructors, the remaining solutions. The only pre-requisite is a first course in calculus; the text covers standard statistics and probability material, and develops beyond traditional parametric models to the Poisson process, and on to modern methods such as the bootstrap.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"[the material is] superbly motivated with interest-grabbing examples... exercises excellent and plentiful." Edward Williams, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
"... it is a notoriously hard task to introduce probability and statistics with a mix of intuition and mathematics to keep students motivated. Therefore, I very much welcome this book and recommend it as course material." Sara van de Geer, Leiden University, The Netherlands
"This textbook provides a well-written first course in probability and statistics...It is a book that has been written based on the long teaching experience of the authors and I would certainly recommend it for university coursework." Short Book Reviews of the International Statistical Institute, December 2005
"This book has numerous quick exercises to give direct feedback to the students. … A website at www.springeronline.com/978-1-85233-896-1 gives access to the data files used inthe text … . This will be a key text for undergraduates in computer science, physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology and business studies who are studying a mathematical statistics course, and also for more intensive engineering statistics courses for undergraduates in all engineering subjects." (Rainer Beedgen, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1079, 2006)
"The book is designed for a one-semester introductory course in probability and statistics basics for engineering students. … It can also be used by students in other more mathematically oriented majors such as applied mathematics with more emphasis on the mathematics and additional coverage in topics such as combinatorics, conditional expectation, and generating functions. … More elaborate exercises and real datasets are given at the end of each chapter." (Arthur B. Yeh, Technometrics, Vol. 49 (3), August, 2007)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Michel Dekking, Cor Kraaikamp, Rik Lopuhaä and Ludolf Meester are professors in the Department of Applied Mathematics at TU Delft, The Netherlands. The material in this book has been successfully taught there for several years, and at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and Wesleyan University, USA, since 2003.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Modern Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Book Subtitle: Understanding Why and How
Authors: Frederik Michel Dekking, Cornelis Kraaikamp, Hendrik Paul Lopuhaä, Ludolf Erwin Meester
Series Title: Springer Texts in Statistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-168-7
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-896-1Published: 15 June 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84996-952-9Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-168-6Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 1431-875X
Series E-ISSN: 2197-4136
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 488
Number of Illustrations: 120 b/w illustrations
Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Mathematical and Computational Engineering