An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling

by Howard M. Taylor, Mark A. Pinsky, Samuel Karlin

Serving as the foundation for a one-semester course in stochastic processes for students familiar with elementary probability theory and calculus, Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, Fourth Edition, bridges the gap between basic probability and an intermediate level course in stochastic processes. The objectives of the text are to introduce students to the standard concepts and methods of stochastic modeling, to illustrate the rich diversity of applications of stochastic processes in the applied sciences, and to provide exercises in the application of simple stochastic analysis to realistic problems.

New to this edition:


Realistic applications from a variety of disciplines integrated throughout the text, including more biological applications
Plentiful, completely updated problems
Completely updated and reorganized end-of-chapter exercise sets, 250 exercises with answers
New chapters of stochastic differential equations and Brownian motion and related processes
Additional sections on Martingale and Poisson process



Realistic applications from a variety of disciplines integrated throughout the text
Extensive end of chapter exercises sets, 250 with answers
Chapter 1-9 of the new edition are identical to the previous edition
New! Chapter 10 - Random Evolutions
New! Chapter 11- Characteristic functions and Their Applications

Genres: Mathematics, Reference, Textbooks

584 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1984

About the author

See also Howard E. Taylor.

Reviews

[Kevin K. Gillette · Rating 4 out of 5]

This textbook was in draft status when I encountered it as a part of the reading for a course I took in stochastic processes at Stanford from Ian Johnstone. Although the typesetting was rather crude in draft form (remember, this was well before the wonderful WYSIWYG editors like MS-Word), it was an effective and accessible text. It served as my first introduction to the Chapman-Kolmogorov equations, which were very much a foundational concept for this subject.