Probability and Random Processes A First Course ith Applications [Paperback]

A comprehensive textbook for undergraduate courses in introductory probability. Offers a case study approach, with examples from engineering and the social and life sciences. Updated second edition includes advanced material on stochastic processes. Suitable for junior and senior level courses in industrial engineering, mathematics, business, biology, and social science departments.Sample Spaces and Events.

Probability.

Random Variables and Their Distributions.

Sets of Random Variables and Random Sequences.

Functions of Random Variables.

Expectation.

Special Distributions.

Fitting Distributions to Data.

Random Processes: Introduction and Examples.

Discrete Parameter Markov Chains.

Continuous Parameter Markov Chains.

Limiting Distribution of Continuous Parameter MarkovProcesses.

Introduction to Queueing Theory.

Appendixes.

Author and Subject Index.

Name Index.

Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science and chair of the Department of English at Texas Tech University. His research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and science, with special interests in systems theory, narrative theory, and ecology. In 2010–11 he was senior fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-University Weimar. His books are Allegories of Writing (1995), Dora Marsden and Early Modernism (1996), Energy Forms (2001), Posthuman Metamorphosis (2008), and Neocybernetics and Narrative (2014). He has coedited From Energy to Information (2002), Emergence and Embodiment (2009), and the Routledge Companion to Literature and Science (2010). He is now writing a cultural hil“Y