Probability An Introduction with Statistical Applications.
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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 for the First Edition
- Historical Note
- About the Text
- For the Instructor
- Preface for the Second Edition
- Chapter 1: Sample Spaces and Probability
- 1.1 Discrete Sample Spaces
- 1.2 Events
- Axioms of Probability
- 1.3 Probability Theorems
- 1.4 Conditional Probability and Independence
- 1.5 Some Examples
- 1.6 Reliability of Systems
- 1.7 Counting Techniques
- 1.8 Chapter Review
- 1.9 PROBLEMS FOR REVIEW
- Chapter 2: Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions
- 2.1 Random Variables
- 2.2 Distribution Functions
- 2.3 Expected Values of Discrete Random Variables
- 2.4 Binomial Distribution
- 2.5 A Recursion
- 2.6 Some Statistical Considerations
- 2.7 Hypothesis Testing: Binomial Random Variables
- 2.8 Distribution of A Sample Proportion
- 2.9 Geometric and Negative Binomial Distributions
- 2.10 The Hypergeometric Random Variable: Acceptance Sampling
- 2.11 Acceptance Sampling (Continued)
- 2.12 The Hypergeometric Random Variable: Further Examples
- 2.13 The Poisson Random Variable
- 2.14 The Poisson Process
- Chapter Review
- Problems for Review
- Chapter 3: Continuous Random Variables and Probability Distributions
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Uniform Distribution
- 3.3 Exponential Distribution
- 3.4 Reliability
- 3.5 Normal Distribution
- 3.6 Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution
- 3.7 Gamma and Chi-Squared Distributions
- 3.8 Weibull Distribution
- Chapter Review
- Problems For Review
- Chapter 4: Functions of Random Variables
- Generating Functions
- Statistical Applications
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Some Examples of Functions of Random Variables
- 4.3 Probability Distributions of Functions of Random Variables
- 4.4 Sums of Random Variables I
- 4.5 Generating Functions
- 4.6 Some Properties of Generating Functions
- 4.7 Probability Generating Functions for Some Specific Probability Distributions
- 4.8 Moment Generating Functions
- 4.9 Properties of Moment Generating Functions
- 4.10 Sums of Random Variables-II
- 4.11 The Central Limit Theorem
- 4.12 Weak Law of Large Numbers
- 4.13 Sampling Distribution of the Sample Variance
- 4.14 Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals for a Single Mean
- 4.15 Hypothesis Tests on Two Samples
- 4.16 Least Squares Linear Regression
- 4.17 Quality Control Chart for
- Chapter Review
- Problems for Review
- Chapter 5: Bivariate Probability Distributions
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Joint and Marginal Distributions
- 5.3 Conditional Distributions and Densities
- 5.4 Expected Values and the Correlation Coefficient
- 5.5 Conditional Expectations
- 5.6 Bivariate Normal Densities
- 5.7 Functions of Random Variables
- CHAPTER REVIEW
- PROBLEMS FOR REVIEW
- Chapter 6: Recursions and Markov Chains
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Some Recursions and their Solutions
- 6.3 Random Walk and Ruin