TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blitzstein,Joseph K.
AU  - Hwang,Jessica
TI  - Introduction to probability
SN  - 9781138369917
AV  - QA273 .B5922 2019
U1  - 519.2 BLI 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Boca Raton
PB  - crc Press/Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Probabilities
KW  - Textbooks
N1  - Includes bibliographic references and index; Probability and counting -- Conditional probability -- Random variables and their distributions -- Expectation -- Continuous random variables -- Moments -- Joint distributions -- Transformations -- Conditional expectation -- Inequalities and limit theorems -- Markov chains -- Markov chain Monte Carlo -- Poisson processes
N2  - "Undergraduate probability book that assumes one-semester of calculus. One key is the emphasis on "stories" for the probability distributions (which I mean in both an intuitive and technical sense): there are a dozen or so key distributions (Normal, Binomial, Poisson, etc.) that are incredibly widely-used in statistics, but a lot of books just write down formulas for them without explaining clearly why these particular distributions are so important, or how they are all connected. Each of these distributions has a "story" (a natural application where it arises), and thinking about stories makes the distributions easier to remember, understand, and work with"--
ER  -