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Title: Probability and Random Processes with Applications to Signal Processing (3rd Edition) by John W. Woods, Henry Stark ISBN: 0130200719 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 24 July, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $115.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75
Rating: 2
Summary: mediocre Prob and Random Processes textbook
Comment: I found Probability and Random Processes a difficult subject and it was compounded by the instructor's selection of the stark and woods textbook. While it has some interesting problem sets and the tone of the text is very engaging, Probability and Random Processes, 3rd ed. has several problems. First of all, the book has several typos, including some in derivations which can cause a "what the...?" moment. Second, many sections in the introductory material gloss over derivations, skip steps, or leave proofs of theorems as the classic "exercize for the reader." (!) The biggest problem the text has is that it doesn't adequately explain the intuition for problem solving. For an engineer coming from industry and starting grad school after an extended period away from college, the net result is that the book is not self-contained. I had to buy the Papoulis book and the Schaum's outline to keep my head above water. When the semester was over I ditched the Stark and Woods and kept the Papoulis book.
Rating: 3
Summary: KooKo
Comment: I am a grad student who has to read this book every week to do the homework :P. Personally I do not reccommend the book for anyone who doesn't have strong random process background. For average student like me, I found myself read it more than 10 times in some of the topics to get the idea of the section (in order to finish end of chapter's questions). Also, I feel like there are some missing link that the author left out (may be because author assume that you know the background quite well) and that sometimes make the flow of the explanation not smooth.(for me)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very well written
Comment: This textbook is for EE grads who are oriented towards signal processing. One of the reasons I like this book is that the authors carefully selected the end of the chapter problems. This book seems to have struck the right balance between theory and application and this is reflected in the problems at the end of the chapter. Another strong emphasis of this book is applications to signal processing and the last chapter is only written for this area. Relative to the book by Papoulis, this book explains the details better for a beginner and also has more application. Relative to the other book by Leon+Garcia, this book emphasizes more signal processing concepts like PSD, KL transforms, trellises, detection&estimation while that of Leon+Garcia has more details on queing theory and networks.
I would wait for a new printing since the first printing of the 3rd edition has some minor errors. A very nice feature of this book is that it starts from the concept of probability space, Algebras and measure in a non-rigorous way to help the student cope with the minor "contradictions" they might perceive when reading a textbook in probability.
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Probability, Random Variables, and Random Processes by Hwei P. Hsu ISBN: 0070306443 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Digital Integrated Circuits (2nd Edition) by Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic ISBN: 0130909963 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $115.00 |
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Title: Electronic Circuit Analysis by David E. Johnson, John L. Hilburn, Johnny R. Johnson, Peter D. Scott ISBN: 0471365718 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $120.70 |
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Title: Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms and Applications (3rd Edition) by John G. Proakis, Dimitris Manolakis ISBN: 0133737624 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 05 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $115.00 |
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Title: Operating System Concepts, 6th Edition by Avi Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne, A Silberschatz ISBN: 0471417432 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $106.50 |
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