Preface
I BasicProbability
1 TrialsandEvents
1.1 Trials,Outcomes,andEvents
1.2 CombinationsofEventsandSpecialEvents
1.3 IndicatorFunctionsandCombinationsofEvents
1.4 Classes,Partitions,andBooleanCombinations
2 ProbabilitySystems
2.1 ProbabilityMeasures
2.2 SomeElementaryProperties
2.3 InterpretationandDeterminationofProbabilities
2.4 MintermMapsandBooleanCombinations
2a TheSigmaAlgebraofEvents
3 ConditionalProbability
3.1 ConditioningandtheReassignmentofLikelihoods
3.2 PropertiesofConditionalProbability
3.3 RepeatedConditioning
4 IndependenceofEvents
4.1 IndependenceasaLackofConditioning
4.2 IndependentClasses
5 ConditionalIndependenceofEvents
5.1 OperationalIndependenceandaCommonCondition
5.2 EquivalentConditionsandDefinition
5.3 SomeProblemsinProbableInference
5.4 ClassificationProblems
6 CompositeTrials
6.1 EventsandComponentEvents
6.2 MultipleSuccess-FailureTrials
6.3 BernoulliTrials
II RandomVariablesandDistributions
7 RandomVariablesandProbabilities
7.1 RandomVariablesasFunctions--MappingConcepts
7.2 MassTransferandProbabilityDistributions
7.3 SimpleRandomVariables
7a BorelSets,RandomVariables,andBorelFunctions
8 DistributionandDensityFunctions
8.1 TheDistributionFunction
8.2 SomeDiscreteDistributions
8.3 AbsolutelyContinuousRandomVariablesandDensityFunc-tions
8.4 SomeAbsolutelyContinuousDistributions
8.5 TheNormalDistribution
8.6 LifeDistributionsinReliabilityTheory
9 RandomVectorsandJointDistributions
9.1 TheJointDistributionDeterminedbyaRandomVector
9.2 TheJointDistributionFunctionandMarginalDistributions
9.3 JointDensityFunctions
10 IndependenceofRandomVectors
10.1 IndependenceofRandomVectors
10.2 SimpleRandomVariables
10.3 JointDensityFunctionsandIndependence
11 FunctionsofRandomVariables
11.1 AFundamentalApproachandsomeExamples
11.2 FunctionsofMoreThanOneRandomVariable
11.3 FunctionsofIndependentRandomVariables
11.4 TheQuantileFunction
11.5 CoordinateTransformations
11a SomePropertiesoftheQuantileFunction
III MathematicalExpectation
12 MathematicalExpectation
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13 ExpectationandIntegrals
14 PropertiesofExpectation
15 VarianceandStandardDeviation
16 Covariance,Correlation,andLinearRegression
17 ConvergenceinProbabilityTheory
18 TransformMethods
19 ConditionalExpectation,GivenaRandomVector
20 RandomSelectionandCountingProcesses
21 PoissonProcesses
21a
22 ConditionalIndependence,GivenaRandomVector
23 MarkovSequences
23a SomeTheoreticalDetails
A SomeMathematicalAids
B SomeBasicCountingProblems
Index