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This is a text for a one-quarter or one-semester course in probability, aimed at students who have done a year of calculus. The book is organised so a student can learn the fundamental ideas of probability from the first three chapters without reliance on calculus. Later chapters develop these ideas further using calculus tools. The book contains more than the usual number of examples worked out in detail.
The most valuable thing for students to learn from a course like this is how to pick up a probability problem in a new setting and relate it to the standard body of theory. The more they see this happen in class, and the more they do it themselves in exercises, the better. The style of the text is deliberately informal. My experience is that students learn more from intuitive explanations, diagrams, and examples than they do from theorems and proofs. So the emphasis is on problem solving rather than theory.
The most valuable thing for students to learn from a course like this is how to pick up a probability problem in a new setting and relate it to the standard body of theory. The more they see this happen in class, and the more they do it themselves in exercises, the better. The style of the text is deliberately informal. My experience is that students learn more from intuitive explanations, diagrams, and examples than they do from theorems and proofs. So the emphasis is on problem solving rather than theory.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Pages 475-560
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jim Pitman
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Jim Pitman is a Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Mathematics in the University of California at Berkeley, USA.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Probability
Authors: Jim Pitman
Series Title: Springer Texts in Statistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4374-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97974-8Published: 12 May 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-94594-1Published: 11 September 1995
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4374-8Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1431-875X
Series E-ISSN: 2197-4136
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 560
Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes , Statistical Theory and Methods