Convergence of Probability Measures

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John Wiley & Sons, 25 giu 2013 - 304 pagine
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.

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PREFACE
WEAK CONVERGENCE IN METRIC
THE SPACE C
ix
THE SPACE D
viii
DEPENDENT VARIABLES
xlviii
OTHER MODES OF CONVERGENCE
lxiii
APPENDIX_M
16
INDEX
38
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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.

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