Convergence of Probability Measures (Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics) - Hardcover

Billingsley, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471072427 ISBN 13: 9780471072423

Publisher: Wiley, 1968

Synopsis

Book by Billingsley, Patrick

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A new look at weak-convergence methods in metric spaces-from a master of probability theory In this new edition, Patrick Billingsley updates his classic work Convergence of Probability Measures to reflect developments of the past thirty years. Widely known for his straightforward approach and reader-friendly style, Dr. Billingsley presents a clear, precise, up-to-date account of probability limit theory in metric spaces. He incorporates many examples and applications that illustrate the power and utility of this theory in a range of disciplines-from analysis and number theory to statistics, engineering, economics, and population biology. With an emphasis on the simplicity of the mathematics and smooth transitions between topics, the Second Edition boasts major revisions of the sections on dependent random variables as well as new sections on relative measure, on lacunary trigonometric series, and on the Poisson-Dirichlet distribution as a description of the long cycles in permutations and the large divisors of integers. Assuming only standard measure-theoretic probability and metric-space topology, Convergence of Probability Measures provides statisticians and mathematicians with basic tools of probability theory as well as a springboard to the "industrial-strength" literature available today.

About the Author

PATRICK BILLINGSLEY, PhD, is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Chicago. His book, Probability and Measure, Third Edition, is also available from Wiley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0471072427
• ISBN 13: 9780471072423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272