Probability and Random Variables: A Beginner's Guide

by David Stirzaker

Book Overview

This concise introduction to probability theory is written in an informal, tutorial style with concepts and techniques defined and developed as necessary. After an elementary discussion of chance, Stirzaker sets out the central and crucial rules and ideas of probability including independence and conditioning. Counting, combinatorics, and the ideas of probability distributions and densities follow. Later chapters present random variables and examine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521644453
• ISBN13: 9780521644457
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.7"