Joseph K. Blitzstein (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,, Jessica Hwang (Stanford University, California, USA)

Introduction to Probability, Second Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 620
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 182mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1360g
• ISBN-13: 9781138369917
• ISBN-10: 1138369918
• Artikelnr.: 55337654

Autorenporträt

Joseph K. Blitzstein, PhD, professor of the practice in statistics, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Jessica Hwang is a graduate student in the Stanford statistics department.

Inhaltsangabe

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.