Applied probability : from random experiments to random sequences and statistics / / Valérie Girardin and Nikolaos Limnios

• Record Nr.: UNISA996479370903316
• Autore: Girardin Valérie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 3-030-97963-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 pages)
• Disciplina: 519.2
• Soggetti: Distribution (Probability theory); Statistics; Stochastic processes; Probabilitats; Estadística matemàtica; Llibres electrònics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notation -- 1 Events and Probability Spaces -- 1.1 Sample Space -- 1.2 Measure Spaces -- 1.2.1 σ-Algebras -- Properties of σ-Algebras -- 1.2.2 Measures -- Properties of Measures -- Dirac Measure -- Counting Measure -- Lebesgue Measure -- 1.3 Probability Spaces -- 1.3.1 General Case -- 1.3.2 Conditional Probabilities -- 1.3.3 Discrete Case: Combinatorial Analysis and Entropy -- Properties of Shannon Entropy -- 1.4 Independence of Finite Collections -- 1.5 Exercises -- 2 Random Variables -- 2.1 Random Variables -- 2.1.1 Measurable Functions -- Properties of Measurable Functions -- 2.1.2 Distributions and Distribution Functions -- Properties of Distribution Functions -- Properties of Quantiles -- 2.2 Expectation -- 2.2.1 Lebesgue Integral -- Properties of Lebesgue Integrals -- 2.2.2 Expectation -- 2.3 Discrete Random Variables -- 2.3.1 General Properties -- 2.3.2 Classical Discrete Distributions -- Dirac Distribution -- Uniform Distribution -- Bernoulli Distribution -- Binomial Distribution -- Hyper-Geometric Distribution -- Geometric and Negative Binomial Distributions -- Poisson Distribution -- 2.4 ; Continuous Random Variables -- 2.4.1 Absolute Continuity of Measures -- 2.4.2 Densities -- Properties of Densities of Random Variables -- 2.4.3 Classical Distributions with Densities -- Uniform Distribution -- Gaussian Distribution -- Gamma, Exponential, Chi-Squared, Erlang Distributions -- Log-Normal Distribution -- Weibull Distribution -- Inverse-Gaussian Distribution -- Beta Distribution -- Fisher Distribution -- Student and Cauchy Distributions -- 2.4.4 Determination of Distributions -- 2.5 Analytical Tools -- 2.5.1 Generating Functions -- Properties of Generating Functions -- 2.5.2 Fourier Transform and Characteristic Functions -- Properties of Characteristic Functions -- 2.5.3 Laplace Transform.; Properties of Laplace Transforms -- 2.5.4 Moment Generating Functions and Cramér Transform -- Properties of Cramér Transform -- 2.6 Reliability and Survival Analysis -- 2.7 Exercises and Complements -- 3 Random Vectors -- 3.1 Relations Between Random Variables -- 3.1.1 Covariance -- Properties of Covariance and Correlation Coefficients -- 3.1.2 Independence of Random Variables -- 3.1.3 Stochastic Order Relation -- 3.1.4 Entropy -- Properties of Entropy -- 3.2 Characteristics of Random Vectors -- 3.2.1 Product of Probability Spaces -- 3.2.2 Distribution of Random Vectors -- Properties of Multi-dimensional Distribution Functions -- Properties of Densities of Random Vectors -- Properties of Covariance Matrices -- 3.2.3 Independence of Random Vectors -- Properties of Covariance Matrices of Two Vectors -- 3.3 Functions of Random Vectors -- 3.3.1 Order Statistics -- 3.3.2 Sums of Independent Variables or Vectors -- Properties of Convolution -- 3.3.3 Determination of Distributions -- 3.4 Gaussian Vectors -- 3.5 Exercises and Complements -- 4 Random Sequences -- 4.1 Enumerable Sequences -- 4.1.1 Sequences of Events -- Properties of Superior and Inferior Limits of Events -- 4.1.2 Independence of Sequences -- 4.2 Stochastic Convergence -- 4.2.1 Different Types of Convergence -- 4.2.2 Convergence Criteria -- 4.2.3 Links Between Convergences -- 4.2.4 Convergence of Sequences of Random Vectors -- 4.3 Limit Theorems -- 4.3.1 Asymptotics of Discrete Distributions -- 4.3.2 Laws of Large Numbers -- 4.3.3 Central Limit Theorem -- 4.4 Stochastic Simulation Methods -- 4.4.1 Generating Random Variables -- 4.4.2 Monte Carlo Simulation Method -- 4.5 Exercises and Complements -- 5 Introduction to Statistics -- 5.1 Non-parametric Statistics -- 5.1.1 Empirical Distribution Function -- 5.1.2 Confidence Intervals -- 5.1.3 Non-parametric Testing -- 5.2 Parametric Statistics.; 5.2.1 Point Estimation -- 5.2.2 Maximum Likelihood Method -- 5.2.3 Precision of the Estimators -- 5.2.4 Parametric Confidence Intervals -- 5.2.5 Testing in a Parametric Model -- 5.3 The Linear Model -- 5.3.1 Linear and Quadratic Approximations -- 5.3.2 The Simple Linear Model -- 5.3.3 ANOVA -- For Two Samples -- One Way Model -- Two Way Model -- 5.4 Exercises and Complements -- Further Reading -- Measure and Probability -- Probability Theory and Statistics -- Applications -- Index.