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This monograph is not a text in probability theory, and this chapter does not give a thorough treatment of probability. Rather, it is intended as a review and reinforcement of important concepts and tools for readers who have studied probability and statistics at the level of an introductory college course that makes use of the calculus. Topics are chosen with the very specific purpose of introducing the tools and methods that will be encountered extensively in subsequent chapters. We also make use of this chapter to introduce some of the more specialized notation that we will employ.
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Epstein, E.S. (1985). Some Fundamentals of Probability. In: Statistical Inference and Prediction in Climatology: A Bayesian Approach. Meteorological Monographs, vol 20. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-27-0_2
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