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ISBN 10: 1138369918
ISBN 13: 978-1138369917
Author: Joseph K. Blitzstein,Jessica Hwang
Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and toolsfor understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory.
The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces.
The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.
The second edition adds many new examples, exercises, and explanations, to deepen understanding of the ideas, clarify subtle concepts, and respond to feedback from many students and readers. New supplementary online resources have been developed, including animations and interactive visualizations, and the book has been updated to dovetail with these resources.
Table of contents:
Probability and Counting
Why study probability?
Sample spaces and Pebble World
Naive definition of probability
How to count
Story proofs
Non-naive definition of probability
Recap
R
Exercises
Conditional Probability
The importance of thinking conditionally
Definition and intuition
Bayes’ rule and the law of total probability
Conditional probabilities are probabilities
Independence of events
Coherency of Bayes’ rule
Conditioning as a problem-solving tool
Pitfalls and paradoxes
Recap
R
Exercises
Random Variables and Their Distributions
Random variables
Distributions and probability mass functions
Bernoulli and Binomial
Hypergeometric
Discrete Uniform
Cumulative distribution functions
Functions of random variables
Independence of rvs
Connections between Binomial and Hypergeometric
Recap
R
Exercises
Expectation
Definition of expectation
Linearity of expectation
Geometric and Negative Binomial
Indicator rvs and the fundamental bridge
Law of the unconscious statistician (LOTUS)
Variance
Poisson
Connections between Poisson and Binomial
*Using probability and expectation to prove existence
Recap
R
Exercises
Continuous Random Variables
Probability density functions
Uniform
Universality of the Uniform
Normal
Exponential
Poisson processes
Symmetry of iid continuous rvs
Recap
R
Exercises
Moments
Summaries of a distribution
Interpreting moments
Sample moments
Moment generating functions
Generating moments with MGFs
Sums of independent rvs via MGFs
*Probability generating functions
Recap
R
Exercises
Joint Distributions
Joint, marginal, and conditional
D LOTUS
Covariance and correlation
Multinomial
Multivariate Normal
Recap
R
Exercises
Transformations
Change of variables
Convolutions
Beta
Gamma
Beta-Gamma connections
Order statistics
Recap
R
Exercises
Conditional Expectation
Conditional expectation given an event
Conditional expectation given an rv
Properties of conditional expectation
*Geometric interpretation of conditional expectation
Conditional variance
Adam and Eve examples
Recap
R
Exercises
Inequalities and Limit Theorems
Inequalities
Law of large numbers
Central limit theorem
Chi-Square and Student-t
Recap
R
Exercises
Markov Chains
Markov property and transition matrix
Classification of states
Stationary distribution
Reversibility
Recap
R
Exercises
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Metropolis-Hastings
Recap
R
Exercises
Poisson Processes
Poisson processes in one dimension
Conditioning, superposition, thinning
Poisson processes in multiple dimensions
Recap
R
Exercises
A Math
A Sets
A Functions
A Matrices
A Difference equations
A Differential equations
A Partial derivatives
A Multiple integrals
A Sums
A Pattern recognition
A Common sense and checking answers
B R
B Vectors
B Matrices
B Math
B Sampling and simulation
B Plotting
B Programming
B Summary statistics
B Distributions
C Table of distributions
Bibliography
Index
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