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Understanding probability : chance rules in everyday life /

New edition of the popular and informal introduction to probability, now with even more examples and exercises to help understanding.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tijms, H. C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Probability questions
  • The law of large numbers and simulation
  • Probabilities in everyday life
  • Rare events and lotteries
  • Probability and statistics
  • Chance trees and Bayes' rule
  • Foundations of probability theory
  • Conditional probability and Bayes
  • Basic rules for discrete random variables
  • Continuous random variables
  • Jointly distributed random variables
  • Multivariate normal distribution
  • Conditional distributions
  • Generating functions
  • Markov chains.