Probability foundations for engineers. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joel A. Nachlas.
• Other Names: Nachlas, Joel A
• Contents: Historical Perspectives; Formal Systems; Intuition; Exercises; ; A Brief Review of Set Theory; Introduction; Definitions; Set Operations; Venn Diagrams; Dimensionality; Conclusion; Exercises; ; Probability Basics; Random Experiments, Outcomes, and Events; Probability; Probability Axioms; Conditional Probability; Independence; Exercises; ; Random Variables and Distributions; Random Variables; Distributions; Discrete Distribution Functions; Continuous Distribution Functions; Conditional Probability; Hazard Functions; Independent Random Variables; Exercises; ; Joint, Marginal, and Conditional Distributions; The Idea of Joint Random Variables; The Discrete Case; The Continuous Case; Independence; Bivariate and Multivariate Normal Distributions; Exercises; ; Expectation and Functions of Random Variables; Expectation; Three Properties of Expectation; Expectation and Random Vectors; Conditional Expectation; General Functions of Random Variables; Expectation and Functions of Multiple Random Variables; Sums of Independent Random Variables; Exercises; ; Moment-Generating Functions; Construction of the Moment-Generating Function; Convolutions; Joint Moment-Generating Functions; Conditional Moment-Generating Functions; Exercises; ; Approximations and Limiting Behavior; Distribution-Free Approximations; Normal and Poisson Approximations; Laws of Large Numbers and the Central Limit Theorem; Exercises; ; Appendix: Cumulative Poisson Probabilities; Index
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 519.2; Engineering -- Statistical methods; Probabilities; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Operations Research; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / Bayesian Analysis; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Operations Research
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466503014; 1466503017
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