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Contents
Chapter 1: Experiments, Models, and Probabilities
Getting Started with Probability
1.1 Set Theory
1.2 Applying Set Theory to Probability
1.3 Probability Axioms
1.4 Conditional Probability
1.5 Partitions and the Law of Total Probability
1.6 Independence
1.7 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 2: Sequential Experiments
2.1 Tree Diagrams
2.2 Counting Methods
2.3 Independent Trials
2.4 Reliability Analysis
2.5 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 3: Discrete Random Variables
3.1 Definitions
3.2 Probability Mass Function
3.3 Families of Discrete Random Variables
3.4 Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF)
3.5 Averages and Expected Value
3.6 Functions of a Random Variable
3.7 Expected Value of a Derived Random Variable
3.8 Variance and Standard Deviation
3.9 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 4: Continuous Random Variables
4.1 Continuous Sample Space
4.2 The Cumulative Distribution Function
4.3 Probability Density Function
4.4 Expected Values
4.5 Families of Continuous Random Variables
4.6 Gaussian Random Variables
4.7 Delta Functions, Mixed Random Variables
4.8 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 5: Multiple Random Variables
5.1 Joint Cumulative Distribution Function
5.2 Joint Probability Mass Function
5.3 Marginal PMF
5.4 Joint Probability Density Function
5.5 Marginal PDF
5.6 Independent Random Variables
5.7 Expected Value of a Function of Two Random Variables
5.8 Covariance, Correlation and Independence
5.9 Bivariate Gaussian Random Variables
5.10 Multivariate Probability Models
5.11 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 6: Probability Models of Derived Random Variables
6.1 PMF of a Function of Two Discrete Random Variables
6.2 Functions Yielding Continuous Random Variables
6.3 Functions Yielding Discrete or Mixed Random Variables
6.4 Continuous Functions of Two Continuous Random Variables
6.5 PDF of the Sum of Two Random Variables
6.6 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 7: Conditional Probability Models
7.1 Conditioning a Random Variable by an Event
7.2 Conditional Expected Value Given an Event
7.3 Conditioning Two Random Variables by an Event
7.4 Conditioning by a Random Variable
7.5 Conditional Expected Value Given a Random Variable
7.6 Bivariate Gaussian Random Variables: Conditional PDFs
7.7 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 8: Random Vectors
8.1 Vector Notation
8.2 Independent Random Variables and Random Vectors
8.3 Functions of Random Vectors
8.4 Expected Value Vector and Correlation Matrix
8.5 Gaussian Random Vectors
8.6 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 9: Sums of Random Variables
9.1 Expected Values of Sums
9.2 Moment Generating Functions
9.3 MGF of the Sum of Independent Random Variables
9.4 Random Sums of Independent Random Variables
9.5 Central Limit Theorem
9.6 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 10: The Sample Mean
10.1 Sample Mean: Expected Value and Variance
10.2 Deviation of a Random Variable from the Expected Value
10.3 Laws of Large Numbers
10.4 Point Estimates of Model Parameters
10.5 Confidence Intervals
10.6 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 11: Hypothesis Testing
11.1 Significance Testing
11.2 Binary Hypothesis Testing
11.3 Multiple Hypothesis Test
11.4 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 12: Estimation of a Random Variable
12.1 Minimum Mean Square Error Estimation
12.2 Linear Estimation of X given Y
12.3 MAP and ML Estimation
12.4 Linear Estimation of Random Variables from Random Vectors
12.5 Matlab
Problems
Chapter 13: Stochastic Processes
13.1 Definitions and Examples
13.2 Random Variables from Random Processes
13.3 Independent, Identically Distributed Random Sequences
13.4 The Poisson Process
13.5 Properties of the Poisson Process
13.6 The Brownian Motion Process
13.7 Expected Value and Correlation
13.8 Stationary Processes
13.9 Wide Sense Stationary Stochastic Processes
13.10 Cross-Correlation
13.11 Gaussian Processes
13.12 Matlab
Problems
Appendix A: Families of Random Variables
A.1 Discrete Random Variables
A.2 Continuous Random Variables
Appendix B: A Few Math Facts
Trigonometric Identities
Sequences and Series
Calculus
Vectors and Matrices
References
Index