Applied Probability and Statistics (New Century College Statistics Major Series Textbooks)

Author: Wang Xuemin (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2005-12-05
Features: This book can be used as a textbook or teaching reference for undergraduate students in finance, economics, and engineering majors taking the course "Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics." The textbook has the following characteristics:
1. In terms of content selection, it balances the fundamental and practical aspects of knowledge, striving to include the most valuable content for readers within the limited space and learning time. It particularly avoids mathematically complex topics with little practical value.
2. The book does not require a high level of mathematical background from readers. Based on this, it rigorously discusses the fundamental theories and methods of probability and statistics while highlighting and demonstrating their applications. This allows readers to build a solid theoretical foundation for further studies in mathematical statistics while also gaining practical skills in applying probability and statistics.
3. Starting from Chapter 5, the book gradually introduces the menu system of the SAS9.0 software.
4. From a practical perspective, the content of the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem is handled. The law of large numbers is discussed within the context of the consistency of estimators.
5. The book appropriately introduces the concept of finite populations and sampling from finite populations, as well as the properties of statistics and their sampling distributions, at the beginning of the mathematical statistics section. The book is divided into ten chapters, with the first four chapters covering probability theory and the last six chapters covering mathematical statistics.