Cinlar, Erham creator text xxu New York Dover Publications 2013 (Dover ed.) monographic eng

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1 vol. (x, 402 p) : ill.; This clear presentation of the most fundamental models of random phenomena employs methods that recognize computer-related aspects of theory. Contents: Probability spaces and random variables -- Expectations and independence --Bernoulli processes and sums of independent random variables -- Poisson processes -- Markov chains -- Limiting behavior and applications of Markov chains -- Potentials, excessive functions, and optimal stopping of Markov chains -- Markov processes -- Renewal theory -- Markov renewal theory -- After word -- Appendix: Non-negative matrices Erham Cinlar Includes index. Stochastic processes QA274.C56 9780486497976 0486497976 120706