Probability Essentials /

This introduction to Probability Theory can be used, at the beginning graduate level, for a one-semester course on Probability Theory or for self-direction without benefit of a formal course; the measure theory needed is developed in the text. It will also be useful for students and teachers in rela...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacod, Jean
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Protter, Philip
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2000.
Series:Universitext,
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Axioms of Probability
  • Conditional Probability and Independence
  • Probabilities on a Countable Space
  • Random Variables on a Countable Space
  • Construction of a Probability Measure
  • Construction of a Probability Measure on R
  • Random Variables
  • Integration with Respect to a Probability Measure
  • Independent Random Variables
  • Probability Distributions on R
  • Probability Distributions on Rn
  • Characteristic Functions
  • Properties of Characteristic Functions
  • Sums of Independent Random Variables
  • Gaussian Random Variables (The Normal and the Multivariate Normal Distributions)
  • Convergence of Random Variables; Weak Convergence
  • Weak Convergence and Characteristic Functions
  • The Laws of Large Numbers
  • The Central Limit Theorem
  • L2 and Hilbert Spaces
  • Conditional Expectation
  • Martingales
  • Supermartingales and Submartingales
  • Martingale Inequalities
  • Martingale Convergence Theorems
  • The Radon-Nikodym Theorem.