Probability: An Introduction - Brossura

Goldberg, Samuel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486652521 ISBN 13: 9780486652528

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2003

Riassunto

Excellent basic text covers set theory, probability theory for finite sample spaces, binomial theorem, probability distributions, means, standard deviations, probability function of binomial distribution, and other key concepts and methods essential to a thorough understanding of probability. Designed for use by math or statistics departments offering a first course in probability. 360 illustrative problems with answers for half. Only high school algebra needed. Chapter bibliographies.

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Contenuti

Chapter 1 SETS 1. Examples of sets; basic notation 2. Subsets 3. Operations on sets 4. The algebra of sets 5. Cartesian product sets Chapter 2 PROBABILITY IN FINTE SAMPLE SPACES 1. Sample spaces 2. Events 3. The probability of an event 4. Some probability theorems 5. Conditional probability and compound experiments 6. Bayes' formula 7. Independent events 8. Independence of several events 9. Independent trials 10. A probability model in genetics Chapter 3 SOPHISTICATED COUNTING 1. Counting techniques and probability problems 2. Binomial coefficients Chapter 4 RANDOM VARIABLES 1. Random variables and probability functions 2. The mean of a random variable 3. The variance and standard deviation of a random variable 4 Joint probability functions; independent random variables 5. Mean and variance of sums of random variables; the sample mean 6. Covariance and correlation; sample mean (cont.) Chapter 5 BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION AND SOME APPLICATIONS 1. Bernoulli trials and the binomial distribution 2. Testing a statistical hypothesis 3. An example of decision-making under uncertainty ANSWERS TO ODD-NUMBERED PROBLEMS INDEX

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Excellent basic text covers set theory, probability theory for finite sample spaces, binomial theorem, probability distributions, means, standard deviations, probability function of binomial distribution, and other key concepts and methods essential to a thorough understanding of probability. Includes 360 illustrative problems with answers for half. Only high school algebra needed. Chapter bibliographies.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0486652521
• ISBN 13: 9780486652528
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 322
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile