An Intermediate Course in Probability

by Allan Gut

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a solid background and understanding of the basic results and methods in probability the­ ory before entering into more advanced courses (in probability and/or statistics). The presentation is fairly thorough and detailed with many solved examples. Several examples are solved with different methods in order to illustrate their different levels of sophistication, their pros, and their cons. The motivation for this style of exposition is that experi­ ence has proved that the hard part in courses of this kind usually in the application of the results and methods; to know how, when, and where to apply what; and then, technically, to solve a given problem once one knows how to proceed. Exercises are spread out along the way, and every chapter ends with a large selection of problems. Chapters I through VI focus on some central areas of what might be called pure probability multivariate random variables, condi­ tioning, transforms, order variables, the multivariate normal distribution, and convergence. A final chapter is devoted to the Poisson process be­ cause of its fundamental role in the theory of stochastic processes, but also because it provides an excellent application of the results and meth­ ods acquired earlier in the book. As an extra bonus, several facts about this process, which are frequently more or less taken for granted, are thereby properly verified.

Genres: Textbooks, Mathematics

Kindle Edition

First published July 21, 1995

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dreadful book. Using this in my second course in probability right now. Poorly organized, hard to read notation, bad examples and explanations of the concepts.

[DJ]

recommended by Hokiat Lim

[Ybom Kcid · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is just a bad book on the topic. Neither theoretical nor applied, full of mistakes and terrible explanations of even the simplest things. Not recommended.

[Mohamed Al-Emam]

college related