An introduction to probability theory and its applications

William Feller

Wiley, 1971 - Business & Economics - 704 pages

Major changes in this edition include the substitution of probabilistic arguments for combinatorial artifices, and the addition of new sections on branching processes, Markov chains, and the De Moivre-Laplace theorem.

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Review: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications. Volume 1 / William Feller

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I don't think it is necessary to seek "easier" introductions to probability than this classic. The prose is quite readable, and the mathematics is accessible to a reader who has some calculus and is ...

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This is the "go to" book on probability theory. I first encountered it over 30 years ago in graduate school. It is a mathematicians book for non-mathematicians like myself. That is, it is fully ...

Contents

• The Exponential and the Uniform Densities: 1
• Densities Convolutions: 3
• The Exponential Density: 8

Bibliographic information

• Title: An introduction to probability theory and its applications; Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics: Probability and mathematical statistics; An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, William Feller; Volume 81 of Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics - Applied Probability and Statistics Section Series; Volume 81 of Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics; Volume 2 of Wiley publication in mathematical statistics; Wiley publications in statistics
• Author: William Feller
• Contributor: William Feller
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 1971
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 16, 2011
• ISBN: 0471257095, 9780471257097
• Length: 704 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Statistics; Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / General; Probabilities