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Probability and Information Theory

Proceedings of the International Symposium at McMaster University, Canada, April, 1968

Editors:

M. Behara,
K. Krickeberg,
J. Wolfowitz

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 89)

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Table of contents (17 papers)

Front Matter

Pages N2-IV

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On different characterizations of entropies
- J. Aczel
Pages 1-11
The structure of capacity functions for compound channels
- R. Ahlswede, J. Wolfowitz
Pages 12-54
Boolean algebraic methods in Markov chains
- M. Barahamihir, D. Behara
Pages 55-63
Maxima of partial sums
- Patrick Billingsley
Pages 64-76
Series expansions for random processes
- L. L. Campbell
Pages 77-95
Glivenko-Cantelli type theorems for distance functions based on the modified empirical distribution function of M. Kac and for the empirical process with random sample size in general
- Miklós Csörgő
Pages 96-98
On the continuity of Markov processes
- Taqdir Husain
Pages 99-105
Some mathematical problems in statistical mechanics
- M. Kac
Pages 106-124
Asymptotic behaviour of the average probability of error for low rates of information transmission
- N. S. Kambo, S. Kotz
Pages 125-125
On the optimum rate of transmitting information
- J. H. B. Kemperman
Pages 126-169
A necessary and sufficient condition for the validity of the local ergodic theorem
- Ulrich Krengel
Pages 170-177
Recent results on mixing in topological measure spaces
- K. Krickeberg
Pages 178-185
Convergence in probability and allied results
- A. R. Padmanabhan
Pages 186-186
Applications of almost surely convergent constructions of weakly convergent processes
- Ronald Pyke
Pages 187-200
Random processes defined through the interaction of an infinite particle system
- Frank Spitzer
Pages 201-223
The central limit theorem and ε-entropy
- Volker Strassen, R.M. Dudley
Pages 224-231
Maximum probability estimators with a general loss function
- L. Weiss, J. Wolfowitz
Pages 232-256
Back Matter

Pages 257-259

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Book Title: Probability and Information Theory
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the International Symposium at McMaster University, Canada, April, 1968
Editors: M. Behara, K. Krickeberg, J. Wolfowitz
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0079113
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1969
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-04608-0Published: 01 January 1969
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-36098-8Published: 14 November 2006
Series ISSN: 0075-8434
Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IV, 260
Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Probability and Statistics in Computer Science, Popular Science, general

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