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Elementary Applications of Probability Theory, Second Edition /

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"This book provides a clear and straightforward introduction to applications of probability theory with examples given in the biological sciences and engineering. The first chapter contains a summary of basic probability theory. Chapters two to five deal with random variables and their applicat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tuckwell, Henry C. (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Probabilities.
Mathematical statistics.
Rider, Alex (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 A review of basic probability theory / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 2 Geometric probability / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 3 Some applications of the hypergeometric and Poisson distributions / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 4 Reliability theory / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 5 Simulation and random numbers / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 6 Convergence of sequences of random variables: the central limit theorem and the laws of large numbers / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 7 Simple random walks / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 8 Population genetics and Markov chains / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 9 Population growth I: birth and death processes / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 10 Population Growth II: Branching Processes / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 11 Stochastic Processes and an Introduction to Stochastic Differential Equations / Henry C. Tuckwell
  • chapter 12 Diffusion processes, stochastic differential equations and applications / Henry C. Tuckwell.