Probability Theory and Applications: Essays to the Memory of József Mogyoródi: 80 (Mathematics and Its Applications, 80) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792319222 ISBN 13: 9780792319221

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

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Synopsis

This volume contains twenty-two original contributions by leading scientists in many important areas of probability theory and its applications. The material also includes significant new results. Together this collection of papers provides a good state-of-the-art survey of current research in the following areas: inequalities; limit theorems; renewal theory and reliability theory; characterizations of distributions; infinite divisibility of polynomials of normal variables; limiting distributions for order statistics; stochastic processes: functional equations in engineering model building; and probabilistic number theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792319222
• ISBN 13: 9780792319221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 367
• Editor: Galambos J., Kátai Imre