Probability and Information
Subtitle: an Integrated Approach
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780511414244
Subjects: Probabilities; Information theory
Description: Update of this popular introduction to probability theory and information theory with new material on Markov chains.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first 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 -12x2; Appendix 4: Table of probabilities associated with the standardnormal distribution