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Probability and Measure by Patrick Billingsley
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    • Product code: 14323
    • ISBN: 0471007102, ISBN13: 9780471007104, 608 pages, hardback
      Published by John Wiley & Sons, 3rd edition, 1995
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    Description of Probability and Measure

    This graduate-level text concentrates on measure theory and modern probability based on measure theory. Its unique feature is the way it intertwines the two subjects: probability problems generate an interest in measure theory and measure theory is then developed and applied to probability. In this new edition, queuing theory is replaced by ergodic theory, modern conditional probability is introduced sooner, and the treatment of Brownian motion is improved. Numerous problems are included in the text.

    From the back cover:
    Now in its new third edition, Probability and Measure offers advanced students, scientists, and engineers an integrated introduction to measure theory and probability. Retaining the unique approach of the previous editions, this text interweaves material on probability and measure, so that probability problems generate an interest in measure theory and measure theory is then developed and applied to probability. Probability and Measure provides thorough coverage of probability, measure, integration, random variables and expected values, convergence of distributions, derivatives and conditional probability, and stochastic processes. The Third Edition features an improved treatment of Brownian motion and the replacement of queuing theory with ergodic theory.

    Like the previous editions, this new edition will be well received by students of mathematics, statistics, economics, and a wide variety of disciplines that require a solid understanding of probability theory.

    Contents of Probability and Measure

    Ch. 1. Probability
    1. Borel's Normal Number Theorem
    2. Probability Measures
    3. Existence and Extension
    4. Denumerable Probabilities
    5. Simple Random Variables
    6. The Law of Large Numbers
    7. Gambling Systems
    8. Markov Chains
    9. Large Deviations and the Law of the Iterated Logarithm

    Ch. 2. Measure
    10. General Measures
    11. Outer Measure
    12. Measures in Euclidean Space
    13. Measurable Functions and Mappings
    14. Distribution Functions

    Ch. 3. Integration
    15. The Integral
    16. Properties of the Integral
    17. The Integral with Respect to Lebesgue Measure
    18. Product Measure and Fubini's Theorem
    19. The L'superscript p' Spaces

    Ch. 4. Random Variables and Expected Values
    20. Random Variables and Distributions
    21. Expected Values
    22. Sums of Independent Random Variables
    23. The Poisson Process
    24. The Ergodic Theorem

    Ch. 5. Convergence of Distributions
    25. Weak Convergence
    26. Characteristic Functions
    27. The Central Limit Theorem
    28. Infinitely Divisible Distributions
    29. Limit Theorems in R'superscript k'
    30. The Method of Moments

    Ch. 6. Derivatives and Conditional Probability
    31. Derivatives on the Line
    32. The Radon-Nikodym Theorem
    33. Conditional Probability
    34. Conditional Expectation
    35. Martingales

    Ch. 7. Stochastic Processes
    36. Kolmogorov's Existence Theorem
    37. Brownian Motion
    38. Nondenumerable Probabilities

    Appendix
    Notes on the Problems
    Bibliography
    List of Symbols
    Index


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