A First Course in Probability

by Sheldon Ross

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This title features clear and intuitive explanations of the mathematics of probability theory, outstanding problem sets, and a variety of diverse examples and applications.

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A sufficient book to pair with a university course. I found it too often fell back on "present a fact/theorem/&c. and prove it" without explanation, justification or illumination. Maybe too focused on being rigorous and correct for the math major, and just hoping the science major will absorb the information with hundreds of different dry examples.
Undergraduate text with lots and lots of really good examples.
This is a great text, Each chapter contains dozens of problems. There's even a special section for "theoretical problems". THere are some hints at the back of the book which I definitely needed. Probability is really an unintuitive subject so doing loads of tough problems is a good way to learn.

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Dr. Sheldon M. Ross is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his PhD in statistics at Stanford University in 1968. He has published many technical articles and textbooks in the areas of statistics and applied probability. Among his texts are A First Course in show more Probability, Introduction to Probability Models, Stochastic Processes, and introductory Statistics. Professor Ross is the founding and continuing editor of the journal Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a Fellow of INFORMS, and a recipient of the Humboldt US Senior Scientist Award. show less

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A First Course in Probability
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A First Course in Probability

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Nonfiction, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction
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519.2Natural sciences & mathematicsMathematicsProbabilities and applied mathematicsProbabilities
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QA273 .R83ScienceMathematicsMathematicsProbabilities. Mathematical statistics
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