Probability: The Science of Uncertainty with Applications to Investments, Insurance, and Engineering - Tapa dura

This textbook for a one-semester course in probability covers combinatorial probability theory based on sets and counting, random variables and probability distribution, special discrete and continuous distributions, and transformations of random variables. A separate chapter provides four extended examples that apply many of the key concepts. Anno

Bean's PROBABILITY: THE SCIENCE OF UNCERTAINTY WITH APPLICATIONS TO INVESTMENTS, INSURANCE, AND ENGINEERING is an 'applied' book that will be of interest to instructors teaching probability in mathematics departments of operations research, statistics, actuarial science, management science, and decision science. Comprehensive, easy to read and comprehend, and current, the book uses investment, insurance, and engineering applications throughout as a unifying theme.