Part 1 book “Applied statistics and probability for engineers” has contents: The role of statistics in engineering, probability, continuous random variables and probability distributions, discrete random variables and probability distributions, joint probability distributions, and other contents. | Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers Third Edition Douglas C. Montgomery Arizona State University George C. Runger Arizona State University John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ACQUISITIONS EDITOR Wayne Anderson ASSISTANT EDITOR Jenny Welter MARKETING MANAGER Katherine Hepburn SENIOR PRODUCTION EDITOR Norine M. Pigliucci DESIGN DIRECTOR Maddy Lesure ILLUSTRATION EDITOR Gene Aiello PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES TechBooks This book was set in Times Roman by TechBooks and printed and bound by Donnelley/Willard. The cover was printed by Phoenix Color Corp. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright 2003 © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 750-4470. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012, (212) 850-6011, fax (212) 850-6008, E-Mail: PERMREQ@. To order books please call 1(800)-225-5945. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Montgomery, Douglas C. Applied statistics and probability for engineers / Douglas C. Montgomery, George C. Runger.—3rd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-471-20454-4 (acid-free paper) 1. Statistics. 2. Probabilities. I. Runger, George C. II. Title. 2002 —dc21 2002016765 Printed in the United States of America. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To: Meredith, Neil, Colin, and Cheryl Rebecca, Elisa, George, and Taylor PQ220 5/30/02 1:02 PM
