Engineering Statistics: An Introduction

This book presents a concise and focused introduction to engineering statistics, emphasizing topics and concepts that a practicing engineer is mostly likely to use: the display of data, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, fitting straight lines to data, and designing experiments to find the impact of process changes on a system or its output. It introduces the language of statistics, derives equations with sufficient detail so that there is no mystery as to how they came about, makes extensive use of tables to collect and summarize important formulas and concepts, and utilizes enhanced graphics that are packed with visual information to illustrate the meaning of the equations and their usage. The book can be used as an introduction to the subject, to refresh one's knowledge of engineering statistics, to complement course materials, as a study guide, and to provide a resource in laboratories where data acquisition and analysis are performed.

Created specifically for the book are 16 interactive graphics (IGs) that can be used to replicate all numerical calculations appearing in the book and many of its figures, numerically evaluate all formulas appearing in tables, solve all exercises, and determine probabilities and critical values for commonly used probability distributions. After downloading a free program, the IGs are ready to use and are self-explanatory in the context of the material.

本書提供了一個簡明而專注的工程統計學介紹，強調實踐工程師最有可能使用的主題和概念：數據展示、置信區間、假設檢驗、對數據擬合直線以及設計實驗以找出流程變化對系統或輸出的影響。它介紹了統計學的語言，以足夠的細節推導方程式，使其來源不再神秘，並廣泛使用表格來收集和總結重要的公式和概念，並利用充滿視覺信息的增強圖形來說明方程式的含義和使用方法。本書可用作主題的入門，以更新工程統計學知識，作為課程材料的補充，作為學習指南，以及在進行數據收集和分析的實驗室中提供資源。

專為本書而創建的16個互動圖形（IGs）可以用於複製書中出現的所有數值計算和許多圖形，數值評估表格中出現的所有公式，解決所有練習問題，並確定常用概率分佈的概率和臨界值。下載免費程序後，IGs即可使用，並且在材料的上下文中是自解釋的。

Edward B. Magrab is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has extensive experience in analytical and experimental analysis of vibrations and acoustics, served as an engineering consultant to numerous companies, and authored and co-authored books on vibrations, environmental noise control, instrumentation, integrated product design, advanced engineering mathematics, MATLAB^(R), and Mathematica^(R). He is a Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Edward B. Magrab是馬里蘭大學學院公園分校機械工程系的名譽教授。他在振動和聲學的分析和實驗分析方面擁有豐富的經驗，曾擔任多家公司的工程顧問，並撰寫和合著了關於振動、環境噪音控制、儀器儀表、綜合產品設計、高級工程數學、MATLAB(R)和Mathematica(R)的書籍。他是美國機械工程師學會的終身會士。