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| Title: | Introduction to Probability by Charles M. Grinstead & J. Laurie Snell |
| Publisher: | American Mathematical Society 1997 |
| Author: | Charles M. Grinstead & J. Laurie Snell |
| Edition: | second Revised Edition |
| Edition Number: | 2 |
| ISBN: | 0821807498 |
| EAN: | 9780821807491 |
| No. of Pages: | 520 |
Description:
This is a textbook designed for an introductory probability course at the university level for sophomores, juniors, and seniors in mathematics, physical and social sciences, engineering, and computer science. It presents a thorough treatment of ideas and techniques necessary for a firm understanding of the subject.
Table of Contents:
1 Discrete Probability Distributions 1
1.1 Simulation of Discrete Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Discrete Probability Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2 Continuous Probability Densities 41
2.1 Simulation of Continuous Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.2 Continuous Density Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3 Combinatorics 75
3.1 Permutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
3.2 Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
3.3 Card Shuffling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
4 Conditional Probability 133
4.1 Discrete Conditional Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
4.2 Continuous Conditional Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
4.3 Paradoxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
5 Distributions and Densities 183
5.1 Important Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
5.2 Important Densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
6 Expected Value and Variance 225
6.1 Expected Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
6.2 Variance of Discrete Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
6.3 Continuous Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
7 Sums of Random Variables 285
7.1 Sums of Discrete Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
7.2 Sums of Continuous Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
8 Law of Large Numbers 305
8.1 Discrete Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
8.2 Continuous Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
9 Central Limit Theorem 325
9.1 Bernoulli Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
9.2 Discrete Independent Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
9.3 Continuous Independent Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
10 Generating Functions 365
10.1 Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
10.2 Branching Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
10.3 Continuous Densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
11 Markov Chains 405
11.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
11.2 Absorbing Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
11.3 Ergodic Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
11.4 Fundamental Limit Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
11.5 Mean First Passage Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
12 Random Walks 471
12.1 Random Walks in Euclidean Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
12.2 Gambler’s Ruin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
12.3 Arc Sine Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
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