Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Probability and Statistics (Schaum's Outline Series) - Softcover

Spiegel, Murray R; Meddis, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070990301 ISBN 13: 9780070990302

Publisher: Schaum Outline Series, 1980

Synopsis

This book gives theory and solved problems for a combined course in probability and mathematical statistics. A calculus background is employed. The first half of the book itself serves as a supplement to the study of probability.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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About the Author:

John J. Schiller, is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Temple University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and has published research papers in the areas of Riemann surfaces, discrete mathematics biology. He has also coauthored texts in finite mathematics, precalculus, and calculus.

Alu Srinivasan is Professor of Mathematics at Temple University. He received an M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Wayne State University, and was Chair of Temple's Mathematics Department from 1990 to 1998. His primary research interests are in applied and mathematical statistics, combinatorics and probability. He has published some seventy papers in these areas and has supervised a dozen Ph.D. dissertations in statistical inference and biostatistics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schaum Outline Series
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0070990301
• ISBN 13: 9780070990302
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480