For a one-semester course, this course provides and strikes a reasonable balance between the analytical, and quantitative approaches to the study of probability and statistics. And also, this material can enhance the students on the mathematical background for their engineering training, especially on the modeling issues of multifarious application or engineering fields.

The objective for this evening school course is to explain the theories as simply as possible. Calculus only appears in few classes where the argument is difficult to develop without it; but even those classes are well designed that a student without calculus can follow. Similarly, straight examples rather than abstract concepts are used to introduce new material; while the theory is presented only after the student has gained the idea of the issue clearly and intuitively.

Mario F. Triola, Elementary STATISTICS, Pearson-Addison Wesley