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Probability: Theory and Examples.
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Some times the lights are shining on me. Other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip its been. Grateful Dead In 1989 when the first edition of the book was completed, my sons David and Greg were 3 and 1, and the cover picture showed the Dow Jones at 2650. The last twenty years have brought many changes but the song remains the same. The title of the book indicates that as we develop the theory, we will focus our attention on examples. Hoping that the book would be a useful reference for people who apply probability in their work, we have tried to emphasize the results that are important for applications, and illustrated their use with roughly 200 examples. Probability is not a spectator sport, so the book contains almost 450 exercises to challenge the reader and to deepen their understanding. The fourth edition has two major changes (in addition to a new publisher): (i) The book has been converted from TeX to LaTeX. The systematic use of labels should eventually eliminate problems with references to other points in the text. In
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- Authors
- Durrett, R.
- Venue
- Biometrics
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1993-09
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 959
- ISSN
- 0006-341X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2797135730
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- 857
- References
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- FWCI
- 0.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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