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Introduction to probability /
"Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google P...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Texts in statistical science.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
| Sumario: | "Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Notas: | "A Chapman & Hall book." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 570 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-570). |
| ISBN: | 9781498704786 1498704786 9781466575592 146657559X |