Probability and statistics for engineering and the sciences

If all you're looking for is "how to plug numbers into formulas," this isn't the book for you. But if you want to understand WHY you're using a particular formula to solve a particular problem, this is probably the best introductory statistics textbook out there.

This is the textbook used for the introductory statistics course for engineers at UC Berkeley and while it has some merits there are other textbooks that are better for the purpose: If probability is the emphasis, Jim Pitman's Probability does the job. If an overview is desired, then Purves' Statistics book will work.

I would not recommend this book for anyone who actually needs to understand the concepts of probability and statistics. The notation is bad and most exercises are tedious and add little insight.