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Introduction to Probability

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Probability theory began in seventeenth century France when the two great French mathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, corresponded over two problems from games of chance. Problems like those Pascal and Fermat solved continuedto influence such early researchers as Huygens, Bernoulli, a...

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Main Authors: Grinstead, Charles M. (Author), Snell, J. Laurie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] American Mathematical Society [1997]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Discrete Probability Distributions
  • 2 Continuous Probability Densities
  • 3 Combinatorics
  • 4 Conditional Probability
  • 5 Distributions and Densities
  • 6 Expected Value and Variance
  • 7 Sums of Random Variables
  • 8 Law of Large Numbers
  • 9 Central Limit Theorem
  • 10 Generating Functions
  • 11 Markov Chains
  • 12 Random Walks

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