Probability and Statistics - The Science of Uncertainty, Second Edition

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• Front page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 - Probability Models
• Chapter 2 - Random Variables and Distributions
• Chapter 3 - Expectation
• Chapter 4 - Sampling Distributions and Limits
• Chapter 5 - Statistical Inference
• Chapter 6 - Likelihood Inference
• Chapter 7 - Bayesian Inference
• Chapter 8 - Optimal Inferences
• Chapter 9 - Model Checking
• Chapter 10 - Relationships Among Variables
• Chapter 11 - Stochastic Processes
• Appendix A - Mathematical Background
• Appendix B - Computations
• Appendix C - Common Distributions
• Appendix D - Tables
• Appendix E - Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises
• Index

Errata

• p. 677 The Taylor series expansions for sin(x) at the bottom of the page should have factorials in the denominators of each term in the sum on the right as in sin(x) = 1 - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7! + ... and the expansion for cos should be cos(x) = 1 - x^2/2! + x^4/4! - x^6/6! + ... (thanks to Amy Goldwater)