{"product_id":"introduction-to-probability-second-edition-9781138369917","title":"Introduction to Probability, Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeveloped from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, \u003cb\u003eIntroduction to Probability \u003c\/b\u003eprovides essential language and toolsfor understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use \u003ci\u003estories \u003c\/i\u003eto uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and \u003ci\u003econditioning \u003c\/i\u003eto reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.\u003cp\u003eThe second edition adds many new examples, exercises, and explanations, to deepen understanding of the ideas, clarify subtle concepts, and respond to feedback from many students and readers. New supplementary online resources have been developed, including animations and interactive visualizations, and the book has been updated to dovetail with these resources. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSupplementary material is available on Joseph Blitzstein's website www. stat110.net. The supplements include: \u003cbr\u003eSolutions to selected exercises\u003cbr\u003eAdditional practice problems\u003cbr\u003eHandouts including review material and sample exams Animations and interactive visualizations created in connection with the edX online version of Stat 110.\u003cbr\u003eLinks to lecture videos available on ITunes U and YouTube There is also a complete instructor's solutions manual available to instructors who require the book for a course.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph K. Blitzstein, PhD\u003c\/strong\u003e, professor of the practice in statistics, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica Hwang is a graduate student in the Stanford statistics department.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"CRC Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50332586770706,"sku":"9781138369917","price":148.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_96668df9-f122-4d67-bdf0-c64851ab7587.jpg?v=1727840273","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/introduction-to-probability-second-edition-9781138369917","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}