Probability and statistical inference for engineers : a first course
Cyrus Derman and Morton Klein.
New York : Oxford University Press, ©1959.
xii, 144 págs. : ilustraciones ; 20 cm.
Serie: University texts in the mathematical sciences
Reseña: MathSciNet, 21 #3036
Contenido
- Elements of set theory. Functions. Sum and product notations. The sample space. Random variables. Probability. Distribution functions. Distributions of special interest. Distributions of functions of random variables. Some descriptive properties of distributions. Joint distribution functions. Conditional probability. Statistical independence. The binomial distribution. Independent random variables. The law of large numbers. The central limit theorem. Approximations to distributions. Decisions with known distributions. Decisions with unknown distributions. Estimation. Decision rules. Principles of choice. Tests of hypotheses. Confidence interval estimation. Tables of the normal, $t$, and chi-square distributions.