Sebastien Roch (Madison University of Wisconsin)

Modern Discrete Probability

An Essential Toolkit

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This largely self-contained text introduces discrete probability and its applications, at a level suitable for beginning graduate students in mathematics, computer science, statistics and engineering. Each chapter includes exercises and pointers to the wider literature, covering a wide spectrum of essential techniques and key examples.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1098g
• ISBN-13: 9781009305112
• ISBN-10: 1009305115
• Artikelnr.: 68544389

Autorenporträt

Sébastien Roch is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has been awarded an NSF CAREER award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, and is a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Notation
1. Introduction
2. Moments and tails
3. Martingales and potentials
4. Coupling
5. Spectral methods
6. Branching processes
A. Useful combinatorial formulas
B. Measure-theoretic foundations
Bibliography
Index.