Introduction to Probability, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

Undergraduate probability book that assumes one-semester of calculus. One key is the emphasis on stories" for the probability distributions (which I mean in both an intuitive and technical sense): there are a dozen or so key distributions (Normal, Binomial, Poisson, etc.) that are incredibly widely-used in statistics, but a lot of books just write down formulas for them without explaining clearly why these particular distributions are so important, or how they are all connected. Each of these distributions has a "story" (a natural application where it arises), and thinking about stories makes the distributions easier to remember, understand, and work with"--

• | Author: Joseph K. Blitzstein, Jessica Hwang
• | Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• | Publication Date: Feb 08, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 620 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138369918
• | ISBN-13: 9781138369917