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Title: A miserable text for an engineering class.
Review: This is appearantly the classic text on probablility and stochastic processes for engineering. Someone has got to be able to do better than this. The author commits the classic error of defining everything very precisely, without ever saying what any of it means. I have to agree with the previous reviewer (doubtless a frustrated student like myself) that this is probably a good reference book for those who already understand the subject. Unfortunately, the explanations are overly mathematical, the index is incomplete, and the script typeface used for special characters and symbols is often incomprehensible (an alphabet table would help). The examples and exercises fail to relate the material to practical applications. As an engineer, I'm not interested in proofs and mathematical rigor- I'm interested in the math as a tool and understanding what I can do with it, and how to go about doing it.
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