David Applebaum

Probability and Information

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An update of this popular introduction to probability theory and information theory with new material on Markov chains.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Second edition
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780521727884
• ISBN-10: 052172788X
• Artikelnr.: 25006602

Autorenporträt

David Appelbaum has previously worked at a University as well as in publishing. His most recent books include notes on water: an aqueous phenomenology [Monkfish, 2018].

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
1. Introduction
2. Combinatorics
3. Sets and measures
4. Probability
5. Discrete random variables
6. Information and entropy
7. Communication
8. Random variables with probability density functions
9. Random vectors
10. Markov chains and their entropy
Exploring further
Appendix 1. Proof by mathematical induction
Appendix 2. Lagrange multipliers
Appendix 3. Integration of exp (-¿x²)
Appendix 4. Table of probabilities associated with the standard normal distribution
Appendix 5. A rapid review of Matrix algebra
Selected solutions
Index.