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A Modern Approach to Probability Theory

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Bert Fristedt

    1. School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

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  2. Lawrence Gray

    1. School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

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  • A variety of applications—Bayesian statistics, financial mathematics, information theory, tomography, and signal processing—now appear as threads in conjunction with the relevant mathematics.
  • Bridges the gap between undergraduate and advanced graduate courses.
  • The treatment of stochastic calculus has been expanded considerably.
  • Numerous examples and over 1000 exercises, with a solutions manual for about 30%.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Probability Spaces, Random Variables, and Expectations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Probability Spaces

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 3-10

    3. Random Variables

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 11-24

    4. Distribution Functions

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 25-40

    5. Expectations: Theory

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 41-58

    6. Expectations: Applications

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 59-74

    7. Calculating Probabilities and Measures

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      Pages 75-84

    8. Measure Theory: Existence and Uniqueness

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 85-100

    9. Integration Theory

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 101-118

  3. Independence and Sums

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-120
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    2. Stochastic Independence

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 121-146

    3. Sums of Independent Random Variables

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 147-162

    4. Random Walk

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      Pages 163-184

    5. Theorems of A.S. Convergence

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      Pages 185-208

    6. Characteristic Functions

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 209-240

  4. Convergence in Distribution

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      Pages 241-242
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    2. Convergence in Distribution on the Real Line

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      Pages 243-270

    3. Distributional Limit Theorems for Partial Sums

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 271-288

    4. Infinitely Divisible Distributions as Limits

      • Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray
      Pages 289-322
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About this book

Overview This book is intended as a textbook in probability for graduate students in math­ ematics and related areas such as statistics, economics, physics, and operations research. Probability theory is a 'difficult' but productive marriage of mathemat­ ical abstraction and everyday intuition, and we have attempted to exhibit this fact. Thus we may appear at times to be obsessively careful in our presentation of the material, but our experience has shown that many students find them­ selves quite handicapped because they have never properly come to grips with the subtleties of the definitions and mathematical structures that form the foun­ dation of the field. Also, students may find many of the examples and problems to be computationally challenging, but it is our belief that one of the fascinat­ ing aspects of prob ability theory is its ability to say something concrete about the world around us, and we have done our best to coax the student into doing explicit calculations, often in the context of apparently elementary models. The practical applications of probability theory to various scientific fields are far-reaching, and a specialized treatment would be required to do justice to the interrelations between prob ability and any one of these areas. However, to give the reader a taste of the possibilities, we have included some examples, particularly from the field of statistics, such as order statistics, Dirichlet distri­ butions, and minimum variance unbiased estimation.

Reviews

"Covers the essentials in a clear and readable fashion… A must for professionals and an attractive text for a graduate course."   —American Mathematical Monthly  (review of the first edition)

"This ambitious book is intended as ‘a textbook in probability for graduate students in mathematics and related areas such as economics, statistics, physics and operations research’…The coverage is careful and thorough…Quite a lot of fairly recent material is incorporated, and this is certainly one of the book’s strengths. The selection of material is sensible, and the quality of exposition is good…In sum: the book contains a lot of good mathematics, nicely done, and should prove useful to students and teachers, and to specialists in probability theory."   —Mathematical Reviews (review of the first edition)

"The book takes the reader from a relatively low level.... To the point where he or she can specialize in research topics of current interest. ...an outstanding basis for teaching a graduate course in probability theory. The exhaustive compilation of results and detailed index also make it a very useful reference text for the more advanced probabilist... a good buy for anyone looking for a very accessible and complete mathematical account of modern probability theory."   —Journal of the American Statistical Association  (review of the first edition)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Modern Approach to Probability Theory

  • Authors: Bert Fristedt, Lawrence Gray

  • Series Title: Probability and Its Applications

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2837-5

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-3807-8Published: 23 December 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2837-5Published: 21 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2297-0371

  • Series E-ISSN: 2297-0398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 758

  • Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

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