文档介绍：Geza´ Schay
Introduction to Probability
with Statistical Applications
Birkhauser¨
Boston • Basel • Berlin
Geza´ Schay
University of Massachusetts Boston
Department of Mathematics
Boston, MA 02125
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Cover design by Mary Burgess.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 60-01, 62-01
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007930422
ISBN-13: 978-0-8176-4497-0 e-ISBN-13: 978-0-8176-4591-5
Printed on acid-free paper.
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Preface
This book provides a calculus-based introduction to probability and statistics. It con-
tains enough material for two semesters but, with judicious selection, it can be used
as a textbook for a one-semester course, either in probability and statistics or in prob-
ability alone.
Each section contains many examples and exercises and, in the statistical sec-
tions, examples taken from current research journals.
The discussion is rigorous, with carefully motivated definitions, theorems and
proofs, but aimed for an audience, such puter science students, whose mathe-
matical background is not very strong and who do not need the detail and mathemat-
ical depth of similar books written for mathematics or statistics