This textbook offers an approachable introduction to measure-theoretic probability, illustrating core concepts with examples from statistics and engineering. The author presents complex concepts in a succinct manner, making otherwise intimidating material approachable to undergraduates who are not necessarily studying mathematics as their major. Throughout, readers will learn how probability serves as the language in a variety of exciting fields. Specific applications covered include the coupon collector’s problem, Monte Carlo integration in finance, data compression in information theory, and more.
Measure-Theoretic Probability is ideal for a one-semester course and will best suit undergraduates studying statistics, data science, financial engineering, and economics who want to understand and apply more advanced ideas from probability to their disciplines. As a concise and rigorous introduction to measure-theoretic probability, it is also suitable for self-study. Prerequisites include a basic knowledge of probability and elementary concepts from real analysis.
Preface.- Beyond discrete and continuous random variables.- Probability spaces.- Lebesgue–Stieltjes measures.- Measurable functions and random variables.- Statistical independence.- Lebesgue integral and mathematical expectation.- Properties of Lebesgue integral and convergence theorems.- Product space and coupling.- Moment generating functions and characteristic functions.- Modes of convergence.- Laws of large numbers.- Techniques from Hilbert space theory.- Conditional expectation.- Levy’s continuity theorem and central limit theorem.- References.- Index.
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