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This clear exposition begins with basic concepts and moves on to combination of events, dependent events and random variables, Bernoulli trials and the De Moivre-Laplace theorem, a detailed treatment of Markov chains, continuous Markov processes, and more. Includes 150 problems, many with answers. Indispensable to mathematicians and natural scientists alike.
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Get the Summary of Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner's Freakonomics in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?
These may not sound...
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En este libro se presentan los supuestos teóricos de los siguientes temas matemáticos:
sucesiones numéricas
serie numérica
cálculo combinatorio
estadística elemental
Cada tema se trata haciendo hincapié en las aplicaciones prácticas y resolviendo algunos ejercicios significativos.
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REA's Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing for exams, doing homework and will remain a lasting reference source for students, teachers, and professionals. Business Statistics I includes descriptive...
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Objective of this book is not to present an elaborate spectrum of all the potential tools, tests, and techniques but to provide a quick and efficient way of making sense of data at hand.
This book is an attempt to help learners navigate through data and not get overwhelmed by the number of techniques and tests. Data is first step to discovery.
There is no pride to be associated with knowledge or mastery of arcane or relative obscurity of tools or...
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Among probability theorists, a bitter controversy has raged for decades between the adherents of John Maynard Keynes' A Treatise on Probability (1921) and those of Richard von Mises' "Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung" (1919). Keynes declared that probabilities measure the extent to which a so-called evidence proposition supports another sentence. Von Mises insisted that they measure the relative frequency with which the members of a so-called...
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Concise advanced-level introduction to stochastic processes that frequently arise in applied probability. Largely self-contained text covers Poisson process, renewal theory, Markov chains, inventory theory, Brownian motion and continuous time optimization models, much more. Problems and references at chapter ends. Bibliography. 1970 edition.
88) Graphs Don't Lie
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Sarah Palin, abortions, global warming and Usain Bolt. The CEO of Apple, 35 trillion gun deaths in 1995, Fox News and 193%. This book has got scandals galore!
With 9 witty chapters taking you on a roller coaster tour of graphical lies, pictorial deceits and pie charts of mayhem, this might just be the most entertaining book about graphs you'll read this year.
Did you know that between them, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney enjoyed a total...
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Thorough, lucid coverage of permutations and factorials, probabilities and odds, frequency interpretation, mathematical expectation, decision making, postulates of probability, rule of elimination, binomial distribution, geometric distribution, standard deviation, law of large numbers, and much more. Exercises with some solutions. Summary. Bibliography. Includes 42 black-and-white illustrations. 1973 edition.
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Can you solve the problem of "The Unfair Subway"? Marvin gets off work at random times between 3 and 5 p.m. His mother lives uptown, his girlfriend downtown. He takes the first subway that comes in either direction and eats dinner with the one he is delivered to. His mother complains that he never comes to see her, but he says she has a 50-50 chance. He has had dinner with her twice in the last 20 working days. Explain. Marvin's adventures in probability...
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This influential treatise presents upper-level undergraduates and graduate students with a mathematical analysis of choice behavior. It begins with the statement of a general axiom upon which the rest of the book rests; the following three chapters, which may be read independently of each other, are devoted to applications of the theory to substantive problems: psychophysics, utility, and learning. Applications to psychophysics include considerations...
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Dans ce livre, des exercices sont réalisés sur les sujets mathématiques suivants:
variables aléatoires, moyenne, variance, covariance
distributions de probabilité marginales et jointes
distributions de probabilité continues et discrètes
théorèmes remarquables et inégalités de statistiques
Des premières indications théoriques sont également présentées pour rendre compréhensible le déroulement des exercices.
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This famous little book was first published in German in 1933 and in Russian a few years later, setting forth the axiomatic foundations of modern probability theory and cementing the author's reputation as a leading authority in the field. The distinguished Russian mathematician A. N. Kolmogorov wrote this foundational text, and it remains important both to students beginning a serious study of the topic and to historians of modern mathematics. Suitable...
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An investigation of the logical foundations of the theory behind Markov random processes, this text explores subprocesses, transition functions, and conditions for boundedness and continuity. Rather than focusing on probability measures individually, the work explores connections between functions. An elementary grasp of the theory of Markov processes is assumed. Starting with a brief survey of relevant concepts and theorems from measure theory, the...
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A self-contained treatment of finite Markov chains and processes, this text covers both theory and applications. Author Marius Iosifescu, vice president of the Romanian Academy and director of its Center for Mathematical Statistics, begins with a review of relevant aspects of probability theory and linear algebra. Experienced readers may start with the second chapter, a treatment of fundamental concepts of homogeneous finite Markov chain theory that...
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Important text offers lucid explanation of how to regulate variables and maintain control over statistics in order to achieve quality control over manufactured products, crops and data. Topics include statistical control, establishing limits of variability, measurements of physical properties and constants, and specification of accuracy and precision.
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Desde la antigüedad, el ser humano ha tratado de asimilar y cuantificar los fenómenos aleatorios, surgiendo distintas concepciones sobre el azar y lo probable; también por miles de años, el hombre ha realizado actividades asociadas con la recolección, organización e interpretación de información, las cuales paulatinamente fueron abordadas por la estadística. Tanto la probabilidad como la estadística se han constituido en herramientas de...
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This introduction to probability theory transforms a highly abstract subject into a series of coherent concepts. Its extensive discussions and clear examples, written in plain language, expose students to the rules and methods of probability. Suitable for an introductory probability course, this volume requires abstract and conceptual thinking skills and a background in calculus. Topics include classical probability, set theory, axioms, probability...
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