This is the standard textbook for courses on probability and statistics. While helping students to develop their problem-solving skills, the author motivates students with practical applications from various areas of ECE that demonstrate the relevance of probability theory to engineering practice. Included are chapter overviews, summaries, checklists of important terms, annotated references, and a wide selection of fully worked-out real-world examples. In this edition, the Computer Methods sections have been updated and substantially enhanced and new problems have been added.

Book Info
Presents a carefully motivated, accessible, and interesting introduction to probability and random processes. Includes sections on modeling, basic statistical techniques, computer simulation, and reliability. DLC: Electric engineering-Mathematics. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering (2nd Edition) (Paperback) This book may not be too friendly to those who are unfamiliar with the subject. This is because the subject is unfriendly. Before you complain about this book, take a look at the other books on the subject to realize that the author took a great effort to make it accessible. However, I personally do not like the degree of compromise made in this book. Too many uninsightful examples, and lacking detailed discussions. This cannot be a good reference book. For reference, I like Papoulis, for enjoy reading deep insights, I like Gardner, and I recommend Peebles for people who hated this book. However, Leon-Garcia is easier to read and faster moving than Papoulis and Gardner. It is not easy attempting to combine mathematical rigor (which this book still lacks) and engineering point of view from many application areas in one text book. Three stars because I like other books better, but this should be the lower bound of evaluation given to this book. Comment | | (Report this)

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