Probability with Statistical Applications

✍ Scribed by Rinaldo B. Schinazi (auth.)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This concise text is intended for a one-semester course, and offers a practical introduction to probability for undergraduates at all levels with different backgrounds and views towards applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Probability Space....Pages 1-21
Random Variables....Pages 23-58
Binomial and Poisson Random Variables....Pages 59-86
Limit Theorems....Pages 87-101
Estimation and Hypothesis Testing....Pages 103-141
Linear Regression....Pages 143-159
Moment Generating Functions and Sums of Independent Random Variables....Pages 161-175
Transformations of Random Variables and Random Vectors....Pages 177-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-219

✦ Subjects

Statistical Theory and Methods; Applications of Mathematics