Modeling Random Systems

by John R. Cogdell

Book Overview

This text equips students in engineering and other technical areas to understand, analyse, and design systems that have random aspects. The unifying concept throughout the book is modelling:... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131414372
• ISBN13: 9780131414372
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Many interesting examples for engineers...

This book contains many interesting examples for engineers and scientists that I have not seen in other elementary probability textbooks, such as the expected distance between points in a two-dimensional spatial Poisson process ("distance between wildflowers in a field" example) which I find useful to model IC defects and in many other applications. The level of mathematical rigor is perhaps low for mathematics students, but I think is fine for most engineer and science students. The book is quite readable. There are many worked examples, as well as answers to many problems. I think it is a mistake to integrate the text so much with Mathematica, since the text is unique enough to stand alone. There is a one chapter on statistics including hypothesis testing which is a reasonable although brief introduction, but I do not think fits in well with the rest of the book. The book is biased toward EE applications.