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Contents

PREFACE xiii

1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Organization of Text 2
1.2 Probability Tables and Computer Software 3
1.3 Prerequisites 3

PART A: PROBABILITY AND RANDOM VARIABLES 5

2 BASIC PROBABILITY CONCEPTS 7
2.1 Elements of Set Theory 8
2.1.1 Set Operations 9
2.2 Sample Space and Probability Measure 12
2.2.1 Axioms of Probability 13
2.2.2 Assignment of Probability 16
2.3 Statistical Independence 17
2.4 Conditional Probability 20
Reference 28
Further Reading 28
Problems 28
3 RANDOM VARIABLES AND PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTIONS 37
3.1 Random Variables 37
3.2 Probability Distributions 39
3.2.1 Probability Distribution Function 39
3.2.2 Probability Mass Function for Discrete Random
Variables 41

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