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A probability path / Sidney I. Resnick.

Title
A probability path / Sidney I. Resnick.
Author
Resnick, Sidney I.
Publication
Boston : Birkhäuser, c1999.

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Description
xii, 453 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"This textbook is geared toward beginning graduate students from a variety of disciplines whose primary focus is not necessarily mathematics for its own sake. Instead, A Probability Path is designed for those requiring a deep understanding of advanced probability for their research in statistics, applied probability, biology, operations research, mathematical finance, and engineering."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Probabilities
  • Probability
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references ([443]-444) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Sets and Events -- 2. Probability Spaces -- 3. Random Variables, Elements, and Measurable Maps -- 4. Independence -- 5. Integration and Expectation -- 6. Convergence Concepts -- 7. Laws of Large Numbers and Sums of Independent Random Variables -- 8. Convergence in Distribution -- 9. Characteristic Functions and the Central Limit Theorem -- 10. Martingales.
ISBN
081764055X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98021749^
OCLC
  • 39800521
  • SCSB-10343217
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library