Statistics, Probability Theory, General & Miscellaneous Engineering

Probability and Statistics for Engineering and Science

Name: Probability and Statistics for Engineering and Science
Author: Jay L. DeVore
ISBN: 9780840065391

by Jay L. Devore

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This manual contains fully worked-out solutions to all of the odd-numbered exercises in the text, giving students a way to check their answers and ensure that they took the correct steps to arrive at an answer.

In this trenchant and elegantly written inquiry into the function and purpose of illness, Kat Duff reflects upon her own experience with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and offers a fresh perspective on recovery and healing. "A lovely book . . . full of insight."--Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul).

About the Author, Jay L. DeVore

Jay Devore earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley, spent a year at the University of Sheffield in England, and finished his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University. He previously taught at the University of Florida and at Oberlin College and has had visiting appointments at Stanford, Harvard, the University of Washington, New York University, and Columbia University. From 1998 to 2006, Jay served as Chair of the Statistics Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, which has an international reputation for activities in statistics education. In addition to this book, Jay has written several widely used engineering statistics texts and a book in applied mathematical statistics. He is currently collaborating on a business statistics text, and also serves as an Associate Editor for Reviews for several statistics journals. He is the recipient of a distinguished teaching award from Cal Poly and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, cooking and eating good food, tennis, and travel to faraway places. He is especially proud of his wife, Carol, a retired elementary school teacher, his daughter Allison, the executive director of a nonprofit organization in New York City, and his daughter Teresa, an ESL teacher in New York City.

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Editorials

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Drawing on her own experience with CFIDS (chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome), the author of this collection of eight essays explores the mystery of human pain. ``Illness is a familiar yet foreign landscape,'' she writes. ``It remains a wilderness . . . despite its continuing presence in our lives.'' Duff spent ``the better part of two years'' in bed; during her sickness she read widely and voluminously, pursuing ``the meaning and purposes of illness.'' Bringing together insights from psychology, religion and anthropology, and explicating the words of shamans and philosophers from many cultures, Duff tracks the universality of illness and the curious contradictions--the sense of freedom, for example--that emerge in its midst. Her own healing, achieved through ``tedious, tenuous and life-giving labor,'' is a model of hope. Duff is a counselor in northern New Mexico. (Mar.)

Library Journal

Library of Congress-assigned subject headings (``Sick-psychology'' and ``Chronic fatigue syndrome-psychological aspects'') suggest the gist of this book, which was written by ``a white woman of sufficient means and mystical temperament nearing forty in twentieth century America'' and unfortunately stricken with chronic Epstein-Barr virus, the yuppie flu. However, the LC listings fail to bring out the parapsychological aspects--the ``alchemy'' of the title--that are a major part of the story. Duff writes, ``For the only way I can evoke and describe this ultimately ineffable dark heart of the universe, that black hole that opens up in illness, and begin to address the question of healing that rises from its center, is through storytelling: the telling of my dreams, the stories of goddesses, my experience and those of other sick people.'' Duff proceeds to recount her dreams. A shaman tells her that she was ``a sacrifice dying so that others may live . . . we would not call you sick, but wounded.'' This reader just doesn't get it. For ``Sick-psychology,'' Arthur Frank's At the Will of the Body ( LJ 3/15/91) and Norman Cousins's Anatomy of an Illness (LJ 9/1/79) are better titles.-- James Swanton, Albert Einstein Coll. of Medicine, New York