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Introduction to probability / Joseph K. Blitzstein, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Jessica Hwang, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Blitzstein, Joseph K., author.
Hwang, Jessica, author.
Series:
Texts in statistical science.
Texts in statistical science
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Probabilities--Textbooks.
Probabilities.
Physical Description:
1 online resource, xv, 589 pages : illustrations 26 cm
Edition:
1st edition
Place of Publication:
Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]
Language Note:
English
System Details:
text file
Summary:
Probability and CountingWhy Study Probability?Sample Spaces and Pebble World Naive Definition of Probability How to Count Story Proofs Non-Naive Definition of Probability Recap R Exercises Conditional Probability The Importance of Thinking Conditionally Definition and Intuition Bayes' Rule and the Law of Total Probability Conditional Probabilities Are Probabilities Independence of Events Coherency of Bayes' Rule Conditioning as a Problem-Solving Tool Pitfalls and Paradoxes Recap R Exercises Random Variables and Their Distributions Random Variables Distributions and Probability Mass Functions B
Contents:
Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 - Probability and counting; Chapter 2 - Conditional probability; Chapter 3 - Random variables and their distributions; Chapter 4 - Expectation; Chapter 5 - Continuous random variables; Chapter 6 - Moments; Chapter 7 - Joint distributions; Chapter 8 - Transformations; Chapter 9 - Conditional expectation; Chapter 10 - Inequalities and limit theorems; Chapter 11 - Markov chains; Chapter 12 - Markov chain Monte Carlo; Chapter 13 - Poisson processes; Appendix A - Math; Appendix B - R; Appendix C - Table of distributions; Bibliography
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Notes:
"A Chapman & Hall book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-570) and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781466575592
146657559X
OCLC:
906040690

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