An Introduction to Probability :Theory and its Applications Vol - ll

Feller, William

An Introduction to Probability :Theory and its Applications Vol - ll - 2nd - New Delhi Wiley India 1971 - 669p.


1 The Exponential and the Uniform Densities

Densities Convolutions

The Exponential Density

Waiting Time Paradoxes The Poisson Process

The Persistence of Bad Luck

Waiting Times and Order Statistics

The Uniform Distribution

Random Splittings

Terminating Transient Processes

Diverse Applications

Existence of Limits in Stochastic Processes

9 Renewal Theory on the Whole Line

Problems for Solution

Random Walks in 311

Basic Concepts and Notations

Duality Types of Random Walks

Convolutions and Covering Theorems

Random Directions

The Use of Lebesgue Measure

Empirical Distributions

Problems for Solution

Special Densities Randomization

Gamma Distributions

3 Related Distributions of Statistics

Some Common Densities

Randomization and Mixtures

Discrete Distributions

CHAPTER

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CHAPTER

Symmetrization

Integration by Parts Existence of Moments

Chebyshevs Inequality

Further Inequalities Convex Functions

Simple Conditional Distributions Mixtures

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11 Conditional Expectations

Problems for Solution

A Survey of some Important Distributions and Processes

Examples

Infinitely Divisible Distributions in Rl

Processes with Independent Increments

5 Ruin Problems in Compound Poisson Processes

Renewal Processes

Examples and Problems

Random Walks

The Queuing Process

Persistent and Transient Random Walks

General Markov Chains

12 Martingales

Problems for Solution

Laws of Large Numbers Applications in Analysis

Bernstein Polynomials Absolutely Monotone Functions

Moment Problems

4 Application to Exchangeable Variables

5 Generalized Taylor Formula and SemiGroups

Inversion Formulas for Laplace Transforms

7 Laws of Large Numbers for Identically Distributed Variables

8 Strong Laws

9 Generalization to Martingales

Problems for Solution

The Basic Limit Theorems

Special Properties

Distributions as Operators

The Central Limit Theorem

5 Infinite Convolutions

Selection Theorems

7 Ergodic Theorems for Markov Chains

Regular Variation

9 Asymptotic Properties of Regularly Varying Functions

Problems for Solution

chapter K Infinitely Divisible Distributions and SemiGroups

Convolution SemiGroups

Preparatory Lemmas

Finite Variances

The Main Theorems

Stable SemiGroups

Triangular Arrays with Identical Distributions

Domains of Attraction

Variable Distributions The ThreeSeries Theorem

Problems for Solution

Markov Processes and SemiGroups

The PseudoPoisson Type

Linear Increments

Jump Processes

Diffusion Processes in 311

The Forward Equation Boundary Conditions

Diffusion in Higher Dimensions

Subordinated Processes

Markov Processes and SemiGroups

The Exponential Formula of SemiGroup Theory

Generators The Backward Equation

Renewal Theory

Proof of the Renewal Theorem

3 Refinements

Persistent Renewal Processes

The Number Nt of Renewal Epochs

Distribution of Ladder Heights WienerHopf Factor ization

3a The WienerHopf Integral Equation

Examples

Applications

A Combinatorial Lemma

Distribution of Ladder Epochs

The Arc Sine Laws

Miscellaneous Complements

Problems for Solution

Laplace Transforms Tauberian Theorems Resolvents

Elementary Properties

Examples

Completely Monotone Functions Inversion Formulas

Tauberian Theorems

6 Stable Distributions

7 Infinitely Divisible Distributions

8 Higher Dimensions

Laplace Transforms for SemiGroups

The HilleYosida Theorem

Problems for Solution

Applications of Laplace Transforms

Examples

Limit Theorems Involving Arc Sine Distributions

Busy Periods and Related Branching Processes

Diffusion Processes

BirthandDeath Processes and Random Walks

The Kolmogorov Differential Equations

The Pure Birth Process

Calculation of Ergodic Limits and of FirstPassage Times

Problems for Solution

Characteristic Functions

Special Distributions Mixtures

2a Some Unexpected Phenomena

Uniqueness Inversion Formulas

Regularity Properties

The Central Limit Theorem for Equal Components

The Lindeberg Conditions

Characteristic Functions in Higher Dimensions

8 Two Characterizations of the Normal Distribution

Problems for Solution

CHAPTER XVI Expansions Related to the Central Limit Theorem

Notations

Expansions for Densities

Smoothing

Expansions for Distributions

The BerryEsseen Theorems

Expansions in the Case of Varying Components

Large Deviations

Infinitely Divisible Distributions

Canonical Forms The Main Limit Theorem

2a Derivatives of Characteristic Functions

Examples and Special Properties

Special Properties

Stable Distributions and Their Domains of Attraction

6 Stable Densities

Triangular Arrays

8 The Class L

9 Partial Attraction Universal Laws

10 Infinite Convolutions

Higher Dimensions

Problems for Solution

Applications of Fourier Methods to Random Walks

2 Finite Intervals Walds Approximation

The WienerHopf Factorization

Implications and Applications

Two Deeper Theorems

Criteria for Persistency

Problems for Solution

Harmonic Analysis

Positive Definite Functions

Stationary Processes

Fourier Series

5 The Poisson Summation Formula

Positive Definite Sequences

L2 Theory

Stochastic Processes and Integrals

Problems for Solution

Answers to Problems

Some Books on Cognate Subjects

Index

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