Selected Topics in Characteristic Functions

Selected Topics in Characteristic Functions
Author: Nikolai G. Ushakov
Publisher: VSP
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1999
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9789067643078

The series is devoted to the publication of high-level monographs and surveys which cover the whole spectrum of probability and statistics. The books of the series are addressed to both experts and advanced students.

Characteristic Functions and Moment Sequences

Characteristic Functions and Moment Sequences
Author: Torben Maack Bisgaard
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2000
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781560728603

This book contains basic information on characteristic functions and moment sequences that is frequently used in probability theory. Characteristic functions and moment sequences are viewed as special cases of positive definite functions. Positive definite functions occur in diverse parts of mathematics, e.g. in operator theory, moment problems, complex function theory, embedding problems, integral equations, and other areas. However, the area of mathematics in which the largest number of people use positive definite functions (some without knowing it) seems to be that of probability theory.

Normal and Student ́s t Distributions and Their Applications

Normal and Student ́s t Distributions and Their Applications
Author: Mohammad Ahsanullah
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2014-02-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9462390614

The most important properties of normal and Student t-distributions are presented. A number of applications of these properties are demonstrated. New related results dealing with the distributions of the sum, product and ratio of the independent normal and Student distributions are presented. The materials will be useful to the advanced undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners in the various fields of science and engineering.

Theory of Probability

Theory of Probability
Author: Boris V. Gnedenko
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1351408593

This book is the sixth edition of a classic text that was first published in 1950 in the former Soviet Union. The clear presentation of the subject and extensive applications supported with real data helped establish the book as a standard for the field. To date, it has been published into more that ten languages and has gone through five editions. The sixth edition is a major revision over the fifth. It contains new material and results on the Local Limit Theorem, the Integral Law of Large Numbers, and Characteristic Functions. The new edition retains the feature of developing the subject from intuitive concepts and demonstrating techniques and theory through large numbers of examples. The author has, for the first time, included a brief history of probability and its development. Exercise problems and examples have been revised and new ones added.

AN INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS, 2ND ED, VOL 2

AN INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS, 2ND ED, VOL 2
Author: Willliam Feller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2008-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9788126518067

· The Exponential and the Uniform Densities· Special Densities. Randomization· Densities in Higher Dimensions. Normal Densities and Processes· Probability Measures and Spaces· Probability Distributions in Rr· A Survey of Some Important Distributions and Processes· Laws of Large Numbers. Applications in Analysis· The Basic Limit Theorems· Infinitely Divisible Distributions and Semi-Groups· Markov Processes and Semi-Groups· Renewal Theory· Random Walks in R1· Laplace Transforms. Tauberian Theorems. Resolvents· Applications of Laplace Transforms· Characteristic Functions· Expansions Related to the Central Limit Theorem,· Infinitely Divisible Distributions· Applications of Fourier Methods to Random Walks· Harmonic Analysis

Probability Distributions Used in Reliability Engineering

Probability Distributions Used in Reliability Engineering
Author: Andrew N O'Connor
Publisher: RIAC
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2011
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1933904062

The book provides details on 22 probability distributions. Each distribution section provides a graphical visualization and formulas for distribution parameters, along with distribution formulas. Common statistics such as moments and percentile formulas are followed by likelihood functions and in many cases the derivation of maximum likelihood estimates. Bayesian non-informative and conjugate priors are provided followed by a discussion on the distribution characteristics and applications in reliability engineering.

Lectures on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics - 3rd Edition

Lectures on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics - 3rd Edition
Author: Marco Taboga
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2017-12-08
Genre: Mathematical statistics
ISBN: 9781981369195

The book is a collection of 80 short and self-contained lectures covering most of the topics that are usually taught in intermediate courses in probability theory and mathematical statistics. There are hundreds of examples, solved exercises and detailed derivations of important results. The step-by-step approach makes the book easy to understand and ideal for self-study. One of the main aims of the book is to be a time saver: it contains several results and proofs, especially on probability distributions, that are hard to find in standard references and are scattered here and there in more specialistic books. The topics covered by the book are as follows. PART 1 - MATHEMATICAL TOOLS: set theory, permutations, combinations, partitions, sequences and limits, review of differentiation and integration rules, the Gamma and Beta functions. PART 2 - FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY: events, probability, independence, conditional probability, Bayes' rule, random variables and random vectors, expected value, variance, covariance, correlation, covariance matrix, conditional distributions and conditional expectation, independent variables, indicator functions. PART 3 - ADDITIONAL TOPICS IN PROBABILITY THEORY: probabilistic inequalities, construction of probability distributions, transformations of probability distributions, moments and cross-moments, moment generating functions, characteristic functions. PART 4 - PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: Bernoulli, binomial, Poisson, uniform, exponential, normal, Chi-square, Gamma, Student's t, F, multinomial, multivariate normal, multivariate Student's t, Wishart. PART 5 - MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION: linear combinations, quadratic forms, partitions. PART 6 - ASYMPTOTIC THEORY: sequences of random vectors and random variables, pointwise convergence, almost sure convergence, convergence in probability, mean-square convergence, convergence in distribution, relations between modes of convergence, Laws of Large Numbers, Central Limit Theorems, Continuous Mapping Theorem, Slutsky's Theorem. PART 7 - FUNDAMENTALS OF STATISTICS: statistical inference, point estimation, set estimation, hypothesis testing, statistical inferences about the mean, statistical inferences about the variance.

Chance and Stability

Chance and Stability
Author: Vladimir V. Uchaikin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2011-09-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 311093597X

The series is devoted to the publication of high-level monographs and surveys which cover the whole spectrum of probability and statistics. The books of the series are addressed to both experts and advanced students.