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Title

Probability theory : a primer / Tamás Rudas.

Author

Rudas, Tamás.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2004.

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Description

vi, 69 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Aimed at demystifying probability theory, this text provides a brief and non-technical introduction to the subject. Employing few formulas, Rudas uses intuitive but precise descriptions and examples to explain procedures in probability as a springboard for understanding the concepts of expectation, variance, continuous distributions, normal distribution, chi-squared distribution, and the applications of probability theory in research practice. This book gives researchers and students a solid foundation for understanding probability, and can serve as a supplement in general statistics courses."--Pub. desc.

Series Statement

Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-142

Uniform Title

Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-142.

Subject

• Probabilities
• Probability Theory
• Probability

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 69).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Where do probabilities come from? ; Deterministic and stochastic models ; Frequentist and other approaches ; Relative frequencies ; Experiments with infinitely many outcomes -- Properties of probability. Basic properties ; Additivity ; Density functions ; Countable additivity -- Probability distributions and random variables. The discrete case ; The binomial distribution ; The continuous case ; The normal distribution ; The Chi-squared distribution -- Conclusions.

ISBN

0761925066 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2004000163

OCLC

54046204

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library