Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers, 3rd Edition

V.P. & Executive Publisher	Don Fowley
Executive Editor	Dan Sayre
Sponsoring Editor	Mary O’Sullivan
Project Editor	Ellen Keohane
Production Editor	Eugenia Lee
Cover Designer	Samantha Low

This book was set in Computer Modern by the authors using LATEX and printed and bound by RRDonnelley. The cover was printed by RRDonnelley.

About the cover: The cover shows a circumhorizontal arc. As noted in Wikipedia, this is an ice-halo formed by plate-shaped ice crystals in high level cirrus clouds. The misleading term “fire rainbow” is sometimes used to describe this rare phenomenon, although it is neither a rainbow, nor related in any way to fire.

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

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