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Beschreibung
The purpose of this book is to introduce the basic notions of probability through the discussion of a variety of problems and applications. The most important feature is the attempt to explain fundamental ideas in classical probability to non-specialists whose only prerequisite is algebra. The book can be used as a text for a first course in probability. Each chapter ends with a few problems with answers at the end of the book.
The purpose of this book is to introduce the basic notions of probability through the discussion of a variety of problems and applications. The most important feature is the attempt to explain fundamental ideas in classical probability to non-specialists whose only prerequisite is algebra. The book can be used as a text for a first course in probability. Each chapter ends with a few problems with answers at the end of the book.
Zusammenfassung
The purpose of this book is to introduce the basic notions of probability through the discussion of a variety of problems and applications. The most important feature is the attempt to explain fundamental ideas in classical probability to non-specialists whose only prerequisite is algebra. The book can be used as a text for a first course in probability. Each chapter ends with a few problems with answers at the end of the book.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1: Cars, Goats, and Sample Spaces. 2: How to Count: Birthdays and
Lotteries. 3: Conditional Probability: From Kings to Prisoners. 4: The
Formula of Thomas Bayes and Other Matters. 5: The Idea of
Independence, with Applications. 6: A Little Bit About Games. 7:
Random Variables, Expectations, and More About Games. 8: Baseball
Cards, The Law of Large Numbers, and Bad News for Gamblers. 9: From
Traffic to Chocolate Chip Cookies with the Poisson Distribution. 10:
The Desperate Case of the Gambler's Ruin. 11: Breaking Sticks, Tossing
Needles, and More: Probability on Continuous Sample Spaces. 12: Normal
Distribution, and Order from Diversity via the Central Limit Theorem.
13: Random Numbers: What They Are and How to Use Them. 14: Computers
and Probability. 15: Statistics: Applying Probability to Make
Decisions. 16: Roaming the Number Line with a Markov Chain:
Dependence. 17: The Brownian Motion, and Other Processes in Continuous
Time.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Genre: Importe, Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xv
244 S.
ISBN-13: 9781461269120
ISBN-10: 1461269121
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Isaac, Richard
Hersteller: Springer
Copernicus
Springer US, New York, N.Y.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 235 x 155 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Isaac
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.10.2012
Gewicht: 0,406 kg
Artikel-ID: 105322849