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.
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
Published: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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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.