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Anirban DasGupta
Probability for Statistics
and Machine Learning
Fundamentals and Advanced Topics
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Anirban DasGupta
Department of Statistics
Purdue University
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Preface
This is panion second volume to my undergraduate text Fundamentals of
Probability: A First Course. The purpose of my writing this book is to give gradu-
ate students, instructors, and researchers in statistics, mathematics, puter
science a lucidly written unique text at the confluence of probability, advanced
stochastic processes, statistics, and key tools for machine learning. Numerous top-
ics in probability and stochastic process