Screen LibraryThe probability lifesaver : all the tools you need to understand chance /
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
A Princeton lifesaver study guide
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| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 727 pages : illustrations, forms ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [717]-719) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691149554 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 0691149550 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9780691149547 (hardback : alkaline paper) 0691149542 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | QA273 |
| CLC: | O211 |
| Call Number: | O211/M651 |
| Contents: | General theory. Introduction -- Basic probability laws -- Counting I : Cards -- Conditional probability, independence, and Bayes' theorem -- Counting II : Inclusion -- exclusion -- Counting III : Advanced combinatorics -- Introduction to random variables. Introduction to discrete random variables -- Introduction to continuous random variables -- Tools : Expectation -- Tools : Convolutions and changing variables -- Tools : Differentiating identities -- Special distributions. Discrete distributions -- Continuous random variables : uniform and exponential -- Continuous random variables : the no |