This undergraduate text distils the wisdom of an experienced teacher and yields, to the mutual advantage of students and their instructors, a sound and stimulating introduction to probability theory. The accent is on its essential role in statistical theory and practice, built on the use of illustra
Probability and random variables
โ Scribed by G P Beaumont
- Publisher
- Harwood
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 347
- Series
- Ellis Horwood series in mathematics and its applications., Statistics and operational research
- Edition
- rev.ed.
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Probability; Conditional probability and independence; Random variables; Continuous distributions; Distribution function; Functions of random variables; Bivariate distributions; Expectation of a random variable; Variance of a random variable; Moment generating functions; Moments of bivariate distributions; Probability generating functions; Sums of random variables; Unbiased estimators; Sampling finite populations; Generating random variables
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