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Elementary probability with applications /

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"This book describes the application of probability models to real-world situations, such as cryptology, population genetics, airline management, blood testing, drug detection, jury verdicts, elections, and music composition. It explains and applies to several examples basic concepts in probabi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rabinowitz, Larry, 1937- (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, [2017]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Probabilities.
Mathematical statistics.
Probability
Probabilités.
probability.
MATHEMATICS > Applied.
MATHEMATICS > Probability & Statistics > General.
Mathematical statistics
Probabilities
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Basic concepts in probability
  • Conditional probability and the multiplication rule
  • Independence
  • Combining the addition and multiplication rules
  • Combining the addition and multiplication rules: applications
  • Random variables, distributions, and expected values
  • Joint distributions and conditional expectations
  • Sampling without replacement
  • Sampling with replacement
  • Sampling with replacement applications
  • Binomial tests.