Description
The most valuable thing for students to learn from a course like this is how to pick up a probability problem in a new setting and relate it to the standard body of theory. The more they see this happen in class, and the more they do it themselves in exercises, the better. The style of the text is deliberately informal. My experience is that students learn more from intuitive explanations, diagrams, and examples than they do from theorems and proofs. So the emphasis is on problem solving rather than theory.
Corrected sixth printing
About the Author
Jim Pitman is a Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Mathematics in the University of California at Berkeley, USA.
Book Information
ISBN 9780387979748
Author Jim Pitman
Format Hardback
Page Count 560
Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.