Introduction to Probability, Second Edition van Joseph K. Blitzstein en Jessica Hwang is an English-language textbook that provides essential knowledge of probability theory for students in higher education. The book covers statistics, randomness, and uncertainty through a variety of examples and applications.
The second edition of this book includes updated explanations, additional exercises, and expanded examples. The authors present complex concepts in an accessible way, supported by stories and practical examples to make important statistical distributions and conditioning intuitive. Each chapter ends with instructions for simulations and calculations in R, an open-source statistical software package.
In addition, supplementary online material is available with animations and interactive visualizations, enhancing the learning experience. Its broad applicability extends to topics such as genetics, computer science, and information theory, where theory and practice are closely intertwined.
This textbook is suitable for courses on probability and statistics, stochastic processes, and general probability theory, and it connects with relevant fields within mathematics.
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science