Introduction to Probability, Second Edition - Rilegato

Blitzstein, Joseph K.; Hwang, Jessica

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1138369918 ISBN 13: 9781138369917

Casa editrice: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2019

Riassunto

Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and toolsfor 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 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.

The second edition adds many new examples, exercises, and explanations, to deepen understanding of the ideas, clarify subtle concepts, and respond to feedback from many students and readers. New supplementary online resources have been developed, including animations and interactive visualizations, and the book has been updated to dovetail with these resources.

Supplementary material is available on Joseph Blitzstein’s website www. stat110.net. The supplements include:
Solutions to selected exercises
Additional practice problems
Handouts including review material and sample exams Animations and interactive visualizations created in connection with the edX online version of Stat 110.
Links to lecture videos available on ITunes U and YouTube There is also a complete instructor's solutions manual available to instructors who require the book for a course.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Joseph K. Blitzstein, PhD, professor of the practice in statistics, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Jessica Hwang is a graduate student in the Stanford statistics department.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Assumes one-semester of calculus. "Stories" make distributions (Normal, Binomial, Poisson that are widely-used in statistics) easier to remember, understand. Many books write down formulas without explaining clearly why these particular distributions are important or how they are all connected.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1138369918
• ISBN 13: 9781138369917
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 620
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile