Topics in probability
By: Narahari Prabhu
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9789814335485; 9789814335478
Subjects: Probabilities; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General
Description: Recent research in probability has been concerned with applications such as data mining and finance models. Some aspects of the foundations of probability theory have receded into the background. Yet, these aspects are very important and have to be brought back into prominence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 79) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Probability distributions; title: 2. Characteristic functions; title: 3. Analytic characteristics functions; title: 4. Infinitely divisible distributions; title: 5. Self-decomposable distributions; triangular arrays.