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Main Title Introduction to mathematical probability,
Author Uspensky, J. V. ; Uspensky, James Victor
Publisher McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.,
Year Published 1937
OCLC Number 00996937
Subjects Probabilities ; Mathematics ; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
Additional Subjects Probabilities
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ELCM  QA273.U86 NVFEL Library/Ann Arbor, MI 01/01/1988
Edition 1st ed.
Collation ix, 411 pages diagrams 24 cm
Notes
"Problems for solution" with answers at end of each chapter. "References" at end of each chapter except chapters I and III.
Contents Notes
Computation of probability by direct enumeration of cases -- Theorems of total and compound probability -- Repeated trials -- Probabilities of hypotheses and Bayes' theorem -- Use of difference equations in solving problems of probability -- Bernoulli's theorem -- Approximate evaluation of probabilities in Bernoullian case -- Further considerations on games of chance -- Mathematical expectation -- The law of large numbers -- Application of the law of large numbers -- Probabilities in continuum -- The general concept of distribution -- Fundamental limit theorems -- Normal distribution in two dimensions. Limit theorem for sums of independent vectors. Origin of normal correlation -- Distribution of certain functions of normally distributed variables -- Appendix I. Euler's summation formula--Stirling's formula--some definite integrals -- Appendix II. Method of moments and its applications -- Appendix III. On a Gaussian problem.