An Intermediate Course in Probability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-16

3. Multivariate Random Variables

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   Pages 17-31

4. Conditioning

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   Pages 32-59

5. Transforms

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   Pages 60-101

6. Order Statistics

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   Pages 102-118

7. The Multivariate Normal Distribution

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   Pages 119-148

8. Convergence

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   Pages 149-194

9. The Poisson Process

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   Pages 195-251

10. Back Matter

    Pages 253-278

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The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a solid background and understanding of the basic results and methods in probability the­ ory before entering into more advanced courses (in probability and/or statistics). The presentation is fairly thorough and detailed with many solved examples. Several examples are solved with different methods in order to illustrate their different levels of sophistication, their pros, and their cons. The motivation for this style of exposition is that experi­ ence has proved that the hard part in courses of this kind usually in the application of the results and methods; to know how, when, and where to apply what; and then, technically, to solve a given problem once one knows how to proceed. Exercises are spread out along the way, and every chapter ends with a large selection of problems. Chapters I through VI focus on some central areas of what might be called pure probability theory: multivariate random variables, condi­ tioning, transforms, order variables, the multivariate normal distribution, and convergence. A final chapter is devoted to the Poisson process be­ cause of its fundamental role in the theory of stochastic processes, but also because it provides an excellent application of the results and meth­ ods acquired earlier in the book. As an extra bonus, several facts about this process, which are frequently more or less taken for granted, are thereby properly verified.

• Normal distribution
• Poisson process
• Probability theory
• Random variable
• Stochastic processes
• measure theory
• statistics
• stochastic process

".. this book offers a very readable preparation. It gives a nice balance between analytic and probabilistic techniques." P.A.L. Embrechts, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

• Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  Allan Gut

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