Some Topics in Probability and Analysis

Some Topics in Probability and Analysis
Author: R. F. Gundy
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 57
Release: 1989
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821807218

This book is based on lectures presented by the author at DePaul University in July 1986. The lectures cover three main topics. The first is local time theory for Brownian motion and some geometrical inequalities for harmonic functions in the upper half-plane $R^{n+1}_+$. The author sketches a proof of the inequalities obtained by Barlow and Yor for the maximal local time functional. The second topic concerns a probabilistic treatment of Riesz transforms in $R^{n+1}_+$, and semimartingale inequalities. The author proves semimartingale inequalities of the type usually obtained for martingales. The final topic centers on a discussion of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup and P. A. Meyer's extension of the Riesz inequalities for the infinite-dimensional version of this semigroup. One of the major results of the book is the establishment of inequalities for the density of the area integral.

High-Dimensional Probability

High-Dimensional Probability
Author: Roman Vershynin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108415199

An integrated package of powerful probabilistic tools and key applications in modern mathematical data science.

Lectures on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics - 2nd Edition

Lectures on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics - 2nd Edition
Author: Marco Taboga
Publisher:
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2012-12-08
Genre: Mathematical statistics
ISBN: 9781480215238

This book is a collection of lectures on probability theory and mathematical statistics. It provides an accessible introduction to topics that are not usually found in elementary textbooks. It collects 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 main 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, Slutski'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.

Ten Lectures on the Probabilistic Method

Ten Lectures on the Probabilistic Method
Author: Joel Spencer
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781611970074

This update of the 1987 title of the same name is an examination of what is currently known about the probabilistic method, written by one of its principal developers. Based on the notes from Spencer's 1986 series of ten lectures, this new edition contains an additional lecture: The Janson inequalities. These inequalities allow accurate approximation of extremely small probabilities. A new algorithmic approach to the Lovasz Local Lemma, attributed to Jozsef Beck, has been added to Lecture 8, as well. Throughout the monograph, Spencer retains the informal style of his original lecture notes and emphasizes the methodology, shunning the more technical "best possible" results in favor of clearer exposition. The book is not encyclopedic--it contains only those examples that clearly display the methodology. The probabilistic method is a powerful tool in graph theory, combinatorics, and theoretical computer science. It allows one to prove the existence of objects with certain properties (e.g., colorings) by showing that an appropriately defined random object has positive probability of having those properties.

Probability Inequalities

Probability Inequalities
Author: Zhengyan Lin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2011-05-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642052614

Inequality has become an essential tool in many areas of mathematical research, for example in probability and statistics where it is frequently used in the proofs. "Probability Inequalities" covers inequalities related with events, distribution functions, characteristic functions, moments and random variables (elements) and their sum. The book shall serve as a useful tool and reference for scientists in the areas of probability and statistics, and applied mathematics. Prof. Zhengyan Lin is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and currently a professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He is the prize winner of National Natural Science Award of China in 1997. Prof. Zhidong Bai is a fellow of TWAS and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; he is a professor at the National University of Singapore and Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.

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.