The Probability Tutoring Book
An Intuitive Course for Engineers and Scientists (and Everyone Else!)

Carol Ash (Author)

9780780310513, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 21 October 1996

480 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.826 kg

A self-study guide for practicing engineers, scientists, and students, this book offers practical, worked-out examples on continuous and discrete probability for problem-solving courses. It is filled with handy diagrams, examples, and solutions that greatly aid in the comprehension of a variety of probability problems.

Preface.

Introduction.

DISCRETE PROBABILITY.

Basic Probability.

Independent Trials and 2-Stage Experiments.

Expectation.

CONTINUOUS PROBABILITY.

Continuous Random Variables.

Jointly Distributed Random Variables.

Jointly Distributed Random Variables Continued.

Expectation Again.

Conditional Probability.

Limit Theorems.

Solutions.

Index.

Subject Areas: Mathematics [PB]