TY - BOOK AU - Pinsky, Mark A. AU - Karlin, Samuel TI - An introduction to stochastic modeling SN - 978023814166 AV - QA274.2.P65 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Elsevier N1 - Includes index; Contents: Introduction -- Conditional Probability and Conditional Expectation -- Markov Chains: Introduction -- The Long Run Behavior of Markov Chains -- Poisson Processes -- Continuous Time Markov Chains -- Renewal Phenomena -- Brownian Motion and Related Processes -- Queuing Systems -- Random Evolutions -- Characteristic Functions and Their Applications N2 - Introduces students to the standard concepts and methods of stochastic modeling, to illustrate the diversity of applications of stochastic processes in the applied sciences, and to provide exercises in the application of simple stochastic analysis to realistic problems. ER -