The authors are Professors in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are members of the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering. They have written several widely used textbooks and research monographs, both individually and jointly.
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核心看点
MIT经典教材,侧重直观理解与建模
新增贝叶斯与经典统计推断内容
习题丰富,星号题常含重要定理
读者共识
概念阐述清晰,直觉解释极佳
对非数学系学生非常友好
统计推断部分讲解略显不足
精彩摘录
"We set up the tree so that an event of interest is associated with a leaf. We view the occurrence of the event as a sequence of steps, namely, the traversals of the branches along the path from the root to the leaf."
"有人与你生日相同的概率有多大"
"You go to a party with 500 guests. What is the probability that exactly one other guest has the same birthday as you? Calculate this exactly and also approximately by using the Poisson PMF. ( For simplicity. exclude birthdays on February 29 . )"