Autore	Kinney John J.
Edizione	[Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2015]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (978 p.)
Disciplina	519.2
Soggetto topico	Probabilities Mathematical statistics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-118-94710-X 1-118-94709-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Preface for the First Edition; Historical Note; About the Text; For the Instructor; Preface for the Second Edition; Chapter 1: Sample Spaces and Probability; 1.1 Discrete Sample Spaces; 1.2 Events; Axioms of Probability; 1.3 Probability Theorems; 1.4 Conditional Probability and Independence; 1.5 Some Examples; 1.6 Reliability of Systems; 1.7 Counting Techniques; 1.8 Chapter Review; 1.9 PROBLEMS FOR REVIEW; Chapter 2: Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions; 2.1 Random Variables; 2.2 Distribution Functions 2.3 Expected Values of Discrete Random Variables2.4 Binomial Distribution; 2.5 A Recursion; 2.6 Some Statistical Considerations; 2.7 Hypothesis Testing: Binomial Random Variables; 2.8 Distribution of A Sample Proportion; 2.9 Geometric and Negative Binomial Distributions; 2.10 The Hypergeometric Random Variable: Acceptance Sampling; 2.11 Acceptance Sampling (Continued); 2.12 The Hypergeometric Random Variable: Further Examples; 2.13 The Poisson Random Variable; 2.14 The Poisson Process; Chapter Review; Problems for Review; Chapter 3: Continuous Random Variables and Probability Distributions 3.1 Introduction3.2 Uniform Distribution; 3.3 Exponential Distribution; 3.4 Reliability; 3.5 Normal Distribution; 3.6 Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution; 3.7 Gamma and Chi-Squared Distributions; 3.8 Weibull Distribution; Chapter Review; Problems For Review; Chapter 4: Functions of Random Variables; Generating Functions; Statistical Applications; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Some Examples of Functions of Random Variables; 4.3 Probability Distributions of Functions of Random Variables; 4.4 Sums of Random Variables I; 4.5 Generating Functions 4.6 Some Properties of Generating Functions4.7 Probability Generating Functions for Some Specific Probability Distributions; 4.8 Moment Generating Functions; 4.9 Properties of Moment Generating Functions; 4.10 Sums of Random Variables-II; 4.11 The Central Limit Theorem; 4.12 Weak Law of Large Numbers; 4.13 Sampling Distribution of the Sample Variance; 4.14 Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals for a Single Mean; 4.15 Hypothesis Tests on Two Samples; 4.16 Least Squares Linear Regression; 4.17 Quality Control Chart for; Chapter Review; Problems for Review Chapter 5: Bivariate Probability Distributions5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Joint and Marginal Distributions; 5.3 Conditional Distributions and Densities; 5.4 Expected Values and the Correlation Coefficient; 5.5 Conditional Expectations; 5.6 Bivariate Normal Densities; 5.7 Functions of Random Variables; CHAPTER REVIEW; PROBLEMS FOR REVIEW; Chapter 6: Recursions and Markov Chains; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Some Recursions and their Solutions; 6.3 Random Walk and Ruin; 6.4 Waiting Times for Patterns in Bernoulli Trials; 6.5 Markov Chains; CHAPTER REVIEW; PROBLEMS FOR REVIEW Chapter 7: Some Challenging Problems
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