Probability and statistics for computer scientists. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Baron.
• Authors: Baron, Michael, 1968-
• Contents: Introduction and Overview; Making decisions under uncertainty; Overview of this book Probability and Random Variables ; Probability; Sample space, events, and probability; Rules of Probability; Equally likely outcomes. Combinatorics; Conditional probability. Independence Discrete Random Variables and Their Distributions ; Distribution of a random variable; Distribution of a random vector; Expectation and variance; Families of discrete distributions Continuous Distributions ; Probability density; Families of continuous distributions; Central limit theorem Computer Simulations and Monte Carlo Methods; Introduction; Simulation of random variables; Solving problems by Monte Carlo methods Stochastic Processes ; Stochastic Processes; Definitions and classifications; Markov processes and Markov chains; Counting processes; Simulation of stochastic processes Queuing Systems ; Main components of a queuing system; The Little’s Law; Bernoulli single-server queuing process; M/M/1 system; Multiserver queuing systems; Simulation of queuing systems Statistics ; Introduction to Statistics; Population and sample, parameters and statistics; Simple descriptive statistics; Graphical statistics Statistical Inference I ; Parameter estimation; Confidence intervals; Unknown standard deviation; Hypothesis testing; Inference about variances Statistical Inference II; Chi-square tests; Nonparametric statistics; Bootstrap; Bayesian inference Regression; Least squares estimation; Analysis of variance, prediction, and further inference; Multivariate regression; Model building Appendix; Appendix ; Inventory of distributions; Distribution tables; Calculus review; Matrices and linear systems; Answers to selected exercises Index Summary, Conclusions, and Exercises are included at the end of each chapter.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 519.20113; Probabilities -- Textbooks; Mathematical statistics -- Textbooks; Probabilities -- Computer simulation -- Textbooks; Mathematical statistics -- Computer simulation -- Textbooks; MATHEMATICS / General; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439875919
• Related ISBNs: 143987591X
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