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Introduction to probability
Blitzstein, Joseph K., author.
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
"Undergraduate probability book that assumes one-semester of calculus. One key is the emphasis on "stories" for the probability distributions (which I mean in both an intuitive and technical sense): there are a dozen or so key distributions (Normal, Binomial, Poisson, etc.) that are incredibly widely-used in statistics, but a lot of books just write down formulas for them without explaining clearly why these particular distributions are so important, or how they are all connected. Each of these distributions has a "story" (a natural application where it arises), and thinking about stories makes the distributions easier to remember, understand, and work with"--
Bibliographic Information
| Format: | Book |
|---|---|
| Author: | Blitzstein, Joseph K., |
| Subject: | Probabilities |
| Publication Year: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. |
| ISBN: | 9781138369917 1138369918 |
| Series: | Chapman & Hall/CRC, Texts in statistical science |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographic references and index. Probability and counting -- Conditional probability -- Random variables and their distributions -- Expectation -- Continuous random variables -- Moments -- Joint distributions -- Transformations -- Conditional expectation -- Inequalities and limit theorems -- Markov chains -- Markov chain Monte Carlo -- Poisson processes. |
| Course: |
ADS130 |
Availability at HKSYU Library
| Location | Call number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| English Book (4/F) | 519.2 BLI 2019 | Available |