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RECORD NUMBER: 2671 OF 5251Main Title | Introduction to mathematical probability, | |||||||||||
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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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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. |
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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. |