Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Fourth Edition
Sheldon M. Ross is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of Southern California.  He received his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 1968. He has published many technical articles and textbooks in the areas of statistics and applied probability.  Among his texts are A First Course in Probability, Introduction to Probability Models, Stochastic Processes, and Introductory Statistics. Professor Ross is the founding and continuing editor of the journalProbability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a recipient of the Humboldt US Senior Scientist Award.