Introduction to Probability - Hardcover

George Roussas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0128000414 ISBN 13: 9780128000410

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 2014

Synopsis

Introduction to Probability, Second Edition, is written for students in statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, operations research, actuarial science, biological sciences, economics, physics, and some of the social sciences with a background in a year-long elementary calculus, taking upper level or graduate level introduction to probability courses. Roussas utilizes his trademark clarity and economy of expression to elucidate important concepts of probability, while providing a plethora of useful examples and exercises of real world applications for students to consider. It includes text, examples, and graphical illustrations - where appropriate - to motivate the reader, and also demonstrate the applicability of probability in a great variety of human activities. It provides a mathematically relatively rigorous, yet accessible and always within the prescribed prerequisites, discussion of probability theory, important to students of all disciplines cited above. Each section provides relevant proofs and is followed by exercises and hints, providing useful clues to the solutions. It answers to even-numbered exercises are provided and detailed answers to all exercises are available to instructors on the book companion site.

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About the Author

George G. Roussas received his B.A. in Mathematics at the University of Athens, Greece, and his Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Roussas is currently Professor and Associate Dean of Statistics at the University of California, Davis. His teaching career began at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Then he was a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Patras, Greece, and also served as the Dean of the College of Sciences and as Chancellor of that University. At the University of Crete, Greece, Roussas served as Vice President of Academic Affairs. Roussas has published several books, and had more than 65 research papers published in refereed journals. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the Royal Statistical Society, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. Finally, Roussas is the Associate Editor of two journals, Statistics and Probability Letters, and Nonparametric Statistics.

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Introduction to Probability, Second Edition, is written for students in statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, operations research, actuarial science, biological sciences, economics, physics, and some of the social sciences with a background in a year-long elementary calculus, taking upper level or graduate level introduction to probability courses. Roussas utilizes his trademark clarity and economy of expression to elucidate important concepts of probability, while providing a plethora of useful examples and exercises of real world applications for students to consider.

Key Features

• Includes text, examples, and graphical illustrations-where appropriate-to motivate the reader, and also demonstrate the applicability of probability in a great variety of human activities
• Provides a mathematically relatively rigorous, yet accessible and always within the prescribed prerequisites, discussion of probability theory, important to students of all disciplines cited above
• Each section provides relevant proofs and is followed by exercises and hints, providing useful clues to the solutions
• Answers to even-numbered exercises are provided and detailed answers to all exercises are available to instructors on the book companion site

About the Author

George G. Roussas is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus (as of July 01, 2012) of Statistics at the University of California, Davis (UC-Davis), and a well-known author of books, research monographs, editor/co-editor of special volumes, and author/co-author of dozens of research articles published in leading journals of the profession. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), and a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens. Roussas was an associate editor of four journals since their inception, and is now a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes. He served as an Associate Dean, Dean, Vice President, and Chancellor at three universities, and he has been instrumental in rendering statistics at UC-Davis nationally and internationally renown. Roussas has been honored with a Festschrift, and he has given featured interviews for the Statistical Science and the Statistical Periscope. He has contributed an obituary to the Bulletin of IMS for Professor -Academician David Blackwell of the UC-Berkeley, and he has been the co-ordinating editor of an article of contributions for same, which appeared in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society; it will be republished in Celebratio Matheimatica.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128000414
• ISBN 13: 9780128000410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 546