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Probability, Statistics, and Queueing Theory (Computer Science and Scientific Computing) 2nd Edition

by Arnold O. Allen (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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This is a textbook on applied probability and statistics with computer science applications for students at the upper undergraduate level. It may also be used as a self study book for the practicing computer science professional. The successful first edition of this book proved extremely useful to students who need to use probability, statistics and queueing theory to solve problems in other fields, such as engineering, physics, operations research, and management science. The book has also been successfully used for courses in queueing theory for operations research students. This second edition includes a new chapter on regression as well as more than twice as many exercises at the end of each chapter. While the emphasis is the same as in the first edition, this new book makes more extensive use of available personal computer software, such as Minitab and Mathematica.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0120510510
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0120510511
  3. Edition
    2nd
  4. Publisher
    Academic Press
  5. Publication date
    September 11, 1990
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.75 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
  8. Print length
    768 pages
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"Allens book is a most welcome contribution: it is self-contained, well-focused and replete with instructive examples. Its informal style makes it well-suited for the non-academic practitioner, but it is also an excellent text for advanced undergraduates."
--COMPUTING REVIEWS
"The techniques and methodology for evaluating computer system performance and capacity are nicely described in Dr. Allen's excellent book. The use of computer-oriented examples is instructive as well as refreshing."
--IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL
"The exposition and notation are unusually clear...this is a well executed, useful book which should be in every computer scientist's library."
--POPULAR COMPUTING
"This book covers just enough theory so that the practical aspects can be illustrated. Homework mixed with humor further strengthens queueing applications. Over the last decade my graduate students, 95% of whom are now practicing engineers in industry, keep telling me how useful [the book] is as a reference..."
--Monte Ung, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
"I have used the text in a two-semester course in Probability and Stochastic Processes at George Mason University. I chose the text because of its complete coverage of these subjects and its organization of topics. I particularly appreciated its up-front introduction of important concepts like joint and conditional distributions and transform methods. These concepts are then exploited in the subsequent development of discrete and continuous distributions and limit theorems. The treatment of stochastic processes and queueing theory was exactly what I wanted for my O.R.-oriented audience. the book was very complete and clear in its explanations, and it includes many excellent examples and exercises. I was quite pleased with my class's success with this text, and I am looking forward to using the new edition."
--Donald T. Gantz, Ph.D., GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

About the Author

Arnold O. Allen is a member of the technical staff of the Performance Technology Center at Hewlett-Packard. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA. Much of the material in the book was developed for classes in probability, statistics, queueing theory, and computer modeling that he taught as UCLA, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard. Dr. Allen has been active in teaching conference tutorials on computer modeling and was the keynote speaker at two international conferences.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Academic Press; 2nd edition (September 11, 1990)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 768 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0120510510
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0120510511
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.65 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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Smug
3.0 out of 5 stars Competent author, poor presentation skill
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2007
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I was about to review the book the first week I got it. Now two months passed and I think I am ready to review this book. I am a 4th year computer science phd student, with personal interest in statistics, which is not my thesis direction.

1. This book is a thorough book, not only cover the area of traditional probability theory, statistics and stocastics, it also thoroughly discussed queueing theory and other advanced topics, in a level of a special book for the topic.

2. This book is of a lot of typos, some of them are unforgivable - essential errors in formulaes. In the 2nd chapter, there are more than one typo per page. The typos are less in the later chapters, but more than any textbook I ever read.

3. The presentation is not good - it is not presented in a nice flow. I have to check back and forth to see where I am in the context. The language of the book is neither neat nor technical - we found a lot of ambiguities in the exercises - different people has different interpretation. Ironically, the author criticized a lot on other statistician's language, I would believe it is better than his. I would say, one may need to pay 1.8-2.5 times effort to understand this book than a well presented textbook.

4. The notation is too much but not good. In chapter 5., they author made a notation table in the front and for each chapter, there is a notation table in the appendix. Well, it is very normal to find some notations in a chapter not appears in the notation table.

5. The author want to cover too much content. Surely he know about the content but when he feel it is too challenging to cover, he put a citation there. To me, it may be better to just skip that part.

In general, if the author could sit down for a month or two, reread every chapter he wrote, think if it make sense or necessary, and re-present the book and correct the typos, it deserve 4.5 stars.
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JL
4.0 out of 5 stars Requirement book for the course and reference book for the future
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2010
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The book is acceptable; even though I didn't think the quality is matched with what the seller said. I think it is one rate below what he/she said. Anyway, it is OK.
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