Probability theory and its applications represent a discipline of fun damental importance to nearly all people working in the high-tech nology world that surrounds us. There is increasing awareness that we should ask not "Is it so?" but rather "What is the probability that it is so?" As a result, most colleges and universities require a course in mathematical probability to be given as part of the undergraduate training of all scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. This book is a text for a first course in the mathematical theory of probability for undergraduate students who have the prerequisite of at least two, and better three, semesters of calculus. In particular, the student must have a good working knowledge of power series expan sions and integration. Moreover, it would be helpful if the student has had some previous exposure to elementary probability theory, either in an elementary statistics course or a finite mathematics course in high school or college. If these prerequisites are met, then a good part of the material in this book can be covered in a semester (IS-week) course that meets three hours a week.

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`In many British Universities and Polytechnics this would be the basis of a second year course, which would also contain some statistical applications.'
The Mathematical Gazette, 70 (1986)

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Book Title: Probability Theory and Applications
Authors: Enders A. Robinson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5386-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: International Human Resource Development Corporation 1985
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2025-2Due: 31 August 1985
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8877-0Published: 05 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5386-4Published: 11 December 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 420
Topics: Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Economic Geology

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