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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Introduction to probability
  name:
    name part: Anderson, David F.
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Seppäläinen, Timo O.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Valkó, Benedek
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 429 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: This classroom-tested textbook is an introduction to probability theory, with the right balance between mathematical precision, probabilistic intuition and concrete applications. Introduction to Probability covers the material precisely, while avoiding excessive technical details. After introducing the basic vocabulary of randomness, including events, probabilities and random variables, the text offers the reader a first glimpse of the major theorems of the subject, the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem. The important probability distributions are introduced organically as they arise from applications. The discrete and continuous sides of probability are treated together to emphasize their similarities. Intended for students with a calculus background, the text teaches not only the nuts and bolts of probability theory and how to solve specific problems, but also why the methods of solution work.
  table of contents: Experiments with random outcomes -- Conditional probability and independence -- Random variables -- Approximations of the binomial distribution -- Transforms and transformations -- Joint distribution of random variables -- Sums and symmetry -- Expectation and variance in the multivariate setting -- Tail bounds and limit theorems -- Conditional distribution.
  note: David F. Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Timo Seppäläinen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Benedek Valkó, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Probabilities
    genre: Textbooks
  classification: QA273 .A5534 2018
  classification: 519.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge mathematical textbooks
  identifier: 9781108415859
  identifier: 1108415857
  identifier: 2017018747
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170420
    record change date: 20230823131404.4
    record identifier: in00004734887