Research Catalog

Title

Understanding probability : chance rules in everyday life / Henk Tijms.

Author

Tijms, H. C.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

x, 442 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"In this fully revised second edition of Understanding Probability, the reader can learn about the world of probability in an appealing way. The author demystifies the law of large numbers, betting systems, random walks, the bootstrap, rare events, the central limit theorem, the Bayesian approach, and more." "This second edition has wider coverage, more explanations and examples and exercises, and a new chapter introducing Markov chains, making it a great choice for a first probability course. But its easy-going style makes it just as valuable if you want to learn about the subject on your own, and high school algebra is really all the mathematical background you need."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Chance
• Probabilities
• Waarschijnlijkheidstheorie
• Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilung
• Mathematical analysis
• probability
• Probability

Note

• Earlier edition published 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Probability questions -- The law of large numbers and simulation -- Probabilities in everyday life -- Rare events and lotteries -- Probability and statistics -- Chance trees and Bayes' rule -- Foundations of probability theory -- Conditional probability and Bayes -- Basic rules for discrete random variables -- Continuous random variables -- Jointly distributed random variables -- Multivariate normal distribution -- Conditional distributions -- Generating functions -- Markov chains.

ISBN

• 9780521701723
• 0521701724

LCCN

2007280327

OCLC

• ocn137221631
• 137221631
• SCSB-1446690

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library