Random Variables and Probability Distributions (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, Series Number 36) - Hardcover

Cramer, H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521076854 ISBN 13: 9780521076852

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1970

Synopsis

Random Variables and Probability Distributions (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 36)

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This tract develops the purely mathematical side of the theory of probability, without reference to any applications. When originally published it was one of the earliest works in the field and treated the subject as a branch of the theory of completely additive set functions. In this edition the terminology has been modernized and several minor changes have been made.

Synopsis

This tract develops the purely mathematical side of the theory of probability, without reference to any applications. When originally published, it was one of the earliest works in the field built on the axiomatic foundations introduced by A. Kolmogoroff in his book Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, thus treating the subject as a branch of the theory of completely additive set functions. The author restricts himself to a consideration of probability distributions in spaces of a finite number of dimensions, and to problems connected with the Central Limit Theorem and some of its generalizations and modifications. In this edition the chapter on Liapounoff's theorem has been partly rewritten, and now includes a proof of the important inequality due to Berry and Esseen. The terminology has been modernized, and several minor changes have been made.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0521076854
• ISBN 13: 9780521076852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 128