Probability and Stochastic Processes
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2014.
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Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Probability
- Chapter 1: Elements of Probability Measure
- 1.1 Probability Spaces
- 1.2 Conditional Probability
- 1.3 Independence
- 1.4 Monotone Convergence Properties of Probability
- 1.5 Lebesgue Measure on the Unit Interval (0,1]
- Problems
- Chapter 2: Random Variables
- Reduction to R. Random variables
- 2.1 Discrete and Continuous Random Variables
- 2.2 Examples of Commonly Encountered Random Variables
- 2.3 Existence of Random Variables with Prescribed Distribution. Skorohod Representation of a Random Variable
- 2.4 Independence
- 2.5 Functions of Random Variables. Calculating Distributions
- Problems
- Chapter 3: Applied Chapter: Generating Random Variables
- 3.1 Generating One-Dimensional Random Variables by Inverting the cdf
- 3.2 Generating One-Dimensional Normal Random Variables
- 3.3 Generating Random Variables. Rejection Sampling Method
- 3.4 Generating Random Variables. Importance Sampling
- Problems
- Chapter 4: Integration Theory
- 4.1 Integral of Measurable Functions
- 4.2 Expectations
- 4.3 Moments of a Random Variable. Variance and the Correlation Coefficient
- 4.4 Functions of Random Variables. The Transport Formula
- 4.5 Applications. Exercises in Probability Reasoning
- 4.6 A Basic Central Limit Theorem: The DeMoivre-LaplaceTheorem:
- Problems
- Chapter 5: Product Spaces. Conditional Distribution and Conditional Expectation
- 5.1 Product Spaces
- 5.2 Conditional Distribution and Expectation. Calculation in Simple Cases
- 5.3 Conditional Expectation. General Definition
- 5.4 Random Vectors. Moments and Distributions
- Problems
- Chapter 6: Tools to study Probability. Generating Function, Moment Generating Function, Characteristic Function
- 6.1 Sums of Random Variables. Convolutions
- 6.2 Generating Functions and Applications
- 6.3 Moment Generating Function
- 6.4 Characteristic Function
- 6.5 Inversion and Continuity Theorems
- 6.6 Stable Distributions. Lévy Distribution
- Problems
- Chapter 7: Limit Theorems
- Introduction
- 7.1 Types of Convergence
- 7.2 Relationships between Types of Convergence
- 7.3 Continuous Mapping Theorem. Joint Convergence. Slutsky's Theorem
- 7.4 The Two Big Limit Theorems: LLN and CLT
- 7.5 Extensions of Central Limit Theorem. Limit Theorems for Other Types of Statistics
- 7.6 Exchanging the Order of Limits and Expectations
- Problems
- Chapter 8: Statistical Inference
- 8.1 The Classical Problems in Statistics
- 8.2 Parameter Estimation Problem
- 8.3 Maximum Likelihood Estimation Method
- 8.4 The Method of Moments
- 8.5 Testing, the Likelihood Ratio Test
- 8.6 Confidence Sets
- Problems
- Part II: Stochastic Processes
- Chapter 9: Introduction to Stochastic Processes