Probability in Petroleum and Environmental Engineering

✍ Scribed by George V. Chilingar, Leonid F. Khilyuk and Herman H. Reike (Auth.)

• Publisher: Gulf Publishing Company
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by three of the world's most renowned petroleum and environmental engineers, Probability in Petroleum and Environmental Engineering is the first book to offer the practicing engineer and engineering student new cutting-edge techniques for prediction and forecasting in petroleum engineering and environmental management. The authors combine a rigorous, yet easy-to-understand, approach to probability and how it is applied to petroleum and environmental engineering to solve multiple problems that engineers or geologists face every day.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
PREFACE, Page xiii
LIST OF NOTATIONS, Page xv
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION, Pages 1-7
CHAPTER 2 - EXPERIMENTS AND EVENTS, Pages 9-24
CHAPTER 3 - SPACE OF ELEMENTARY EVENTS, Pages 25-39
CHAPTER 4 - PROBABILITY OF RANDOM EVENTS, Pages 41-59
CHAPTER 5 - CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY AND STOCHASTIC INDEPENDENCE: Multistage Probabilistic Evaluation and Forecasting, Pages 61-74
CHAPTER 6 - BERNOULLI DISTRIBUTION AND SEQUENCES OF INDEPENDENT TRIALS, Pages 75-87
CHAPTER 7 - RANDOM VARIABLES AND DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS, Pages 89-109
CHAPTER 8 - NUMERICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RANDOM VARIABLES: Mathematical Expectation, Variance, and Moments of Higher Order, Pages 111-127
CHAPTER 9 - NUMERICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RANDOM VARIABLES: Quantiles, Pages 129-144
CHAPTER 10 - PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: Discrete Case, Pages 145-162
CHAPTER 11 - PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: Continuous Case, Pages 163-189
CHAPTER 12 - LIMIT THEOREMS OF THE PROBABILITY THEORY, Pages 191-206
CHAPTER 13 - PROBABILISTIC DECISION MAKING, Pages 207-233
APPENDIX 1 - PRINCIPLES OF SET THEORY, Pages 235-244
APPENDIX 2 - METHODS OF COUNTING, Pages 245-248
APPENDIX 3 - STATISTICAL COMPARISON OF AN ORIGINAL DATA SET WITH ITS SUBSET IN OIL SPILL STUDIES, Pages 249-259
APPENDIX 4 - STANDARD NORMAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION, Pages 261-262
REFERENCES, Pages 263-267
AUTHOR INDEX, Page 269
SUBJECT INDEX, Pages 271-275