Probability via Expectation (Paperback, 3rd ed. 1992)

This book is a complete revision of the earlier work Probability which ap peared in 1970. While revised so radically and incorporating so much new material as to amount to a new text, it preserves both the aim and the approach of the original. That aim was stated as the provision of a 'first text in probability, de manding a reasonable but not extensive knowledge of mathematics, and taking the reader to what one might describe as a good intermediate level'. In doing so it attempted to break away from stereotyped applications, and consider applications of a more novel and significant character. The particular novelty of the approach was that expectation was taken as the prime concept, and the concept of expectation axiomatized rather than that of a probability measure. In the preface to the original text of 1970 (reproduced below, together with that to the Russian edition of 1982) I listed what I saw as the advantages of the approach in as unlaboured a fashion as I could. I also took the view that the text rather than the author should persuade, and left the text to speak for itself. It has, indeed, stimulated a steady interest, to the point that Springer-Verlag has now commissioned this complete reworking."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Springer Texts in Statistics
Release date:	May 1992
First published:	1992
Authors:	Peter Whittle
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
Edition:	3rd ed. 1992
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-97764-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Promotions
LSN:	0-387-97764-3
Barcode:	9780387977645

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