Introduction to Probability, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9781138369917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 620 str.

Joseph K. Blitzstein; Jessica Hwang

Opis

Assumes one-semester of calculus. "Stories" make distributions (Normal, Binomial, Poisson that are widely-used in statistics) easier to remember, understand. Many books write down formulas without explaining clearly why these particular distributions are important or how they are all connected.

Spis treści

Probability and Counting. Conditional Probability. Random Variables and Their Distributions. Expectation. Continuous Random Variables. Moments. Joint Distributions. Transformations. Conditional Expectation. Inequalities and Limit Theorems. Markov Chains. Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Poisson Processes.