This is the standard textbook for courses on probability and statistics, not substantially updated. While helping students to develop their problem-solving skills, the author motivates students with practical applications from various areas of ECE that demonstrate the relevance of probability theory to engineering practice. Included are chapter overviews, summaries, checklists of important terms, annotated references, and a wide selection of fully worked-out real-world examples. In this edition, the Computer Methods sections have been updated and substantially enhanced and new problems have been added.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Probability Models in Electrical and Computer Engineering 

CHAPTER 2 Basic Concepts of Probability Theory 

CHAPTER 3 Discrete Random Variables 

CHAPTER 4 One Random Variable 

CHAPTER 5 Pairs of Random Variables 

CHAPTER 6 Vector Random Variables 

CHAPTER 7 Sums of Random Variables and Long-Term Averages 

CHAPTER 8 Statistics 

CHAPTER 9 Random Processes 

CHAPTER 10 Analysis and Processing of Random Signals 

CHAPTER 11 Markov Chains 

CHAPTER 12 Introduction to Queueing Theory 

Appendices 

About the author 

Alberto Leon-Garcia is a Professor in the Depatment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toranto where he holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Computer Network and Innovation. He was also Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of Accelight Networks Inc. where he led the development of a terabit multiservice optical switch. In 1999 Dr. Leon-Garcia became an IEEE fellow for "for Contribution to multiplexing and switching of Integrated Service traffic."