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Title: Schaum's Outline of Probability, 2nd Edition by Seymour Lipschutz ISBN: 0-07-135203-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 21 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: a weaker schaum's outline
Comment: Pitched to a weakish high school math background. Scant treatment of continuous random variables is one of several reasons this fails to achieve the comprehensiveness of other schaum's outlines. There may be courses where this is a good study aid (e.g. probability for poets), but it's a poor reference to basic probability for someone with a stronger math background.

Like other schaum's it is riddled with typographical errors and there is no errata. Eg. Appearing twice:

Correlation(X,Y) = Cov(X,Y) / E(X)E(Y).

Even at their worst, I still find the schaum's guides (this one included) better than a typical textbook with the same scope. This one, however, the problem is scope.

Rating: 4
Summary: Better than most porbability texts
Comment: I believe this book is excellent, but I would supplement it with a book on probability (perhaps A First Course in Probability by Ross). It's introductory, easily-read, and offers theoretical foundations for most everything in the problems.

Rating: 4
Summary: Good by itself
Comment: Although these books are usually used as a supplement to a textbook you are using for class, this book could work on its own. As long as you have some algebra under your belt, you should have no problem following this.

If you are looking to see what areas this covers, the chapters talk about set theory, techniques of counting, a probability introduction, conditional probability and independence, random variables, distributions (binomial, normal, and Poisson), and Markov chains. There are plenty of definitions, explanations, charts, and tables to help you remember and understand all the appropriate information. This is a very handy reference.

As with other books in the series, this book walks you through a few problems and then gives you some to solve. I like this book in that it gives you the answers so that you can check your understanding. Although it does walk you through the ones you did, you do have the final answer.

I would recommend this book.

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