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<p>Grinstead and Snells Introduction to ProbabilityThe CHANCE Project1Version dated 4 July 20061Copyright (C) 2006 Peter G. Doyle. This work is a version of Grinstead and SnellsIntroduction to Probability, 2nd edition, published by the American Mathematical So-ciety, Copyright (C) 2003 Charles M. Grinstead and J. Laurie Snell. This work is freelyredistributable under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.To our wivesand in memory ofReese T. ProsserContentsPreface vii1 Discrete Probability Distributions 11.1 Simulation of Discrete Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2 Discrete Probability Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Continuous Probability Densities 412.1 Simulation of Continuous Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412.2 Continuous Density Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 Combinatorics 753.1 Permutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753.2 Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923.3 Card Shuing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1204 Conditional Probability 1334.1 Discrete Conditional Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334.2 Continuous Conditional Probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1624.3 Paradoxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755 Distributions and Densities 1835.1 Important Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1835.2 Important Densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2056 Expected Value and Variance 2256.1 Expected Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2256.2 Variance of Discrete Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2576.3 Continuous Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2687 Sums of Random Variables 2857.1 Sums of Discrete Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2857.2 Sums of Continuous Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2918 Law of Large Numbers 3058.1 Discrete Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3058.2 Continuous Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316vvi CONTENTS9 Central Limit Theorem 3259.1 Bernoulli Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3259.2 Discrete Independent Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3409.3 Continuous Independent Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35610 Generating Functions 36510.1 Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36510.2 Branching Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37610.3 Continuous Densities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39311 Markov Chains 40511.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40511.2 Absorbing Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41611.3 Ergodic Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43311.4 Fundamental Limit Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44711.5 Mean First Passage Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45212 Random Walks 47112.1 Random Walks in Euclidean Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47112.2 Gamblers Ruin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48612.3 Arc Sine Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493Appendices 499PrefaceProbability theory began in seventeenth century France when the two great Frenchmathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, corresponded over two prob-lems from games of chance. Problems like those Pascal and Fermat solved continuedto inuence such early researchers as Huygens, Bernoulli, and DeMoivre in estab-lishing a mathematical theory of probability. Today, probability theory is a well-established branch of mathematics that nds applications in every area of scholarlyactivity from music to physics, and in daily experience from weather prediction topredicting the risks of new medical treatments.This text is designed for an introductory probability course taken by sophomores,juniors, and seniors in mathematics, the physical and social sciences, engineering,and computer science. It presents a thorough treatment of probability ideas andtechniques necessary for a rm understanding of the subject. The text can be usedin a variety of course lengths, levels, and areas of emphasis.For use in a standard one-term course, in which both discrete and continuousprobability is covered, students should have taken as a prerequisite two terms ofcalculus, including an introduction to multiple integrals. In order to cover Chap-ter 11, which contains material on Markov chains, some knowledge of matrix theoryis necessary.The text can also be used in a discrete probability course. The material has beenorganized in such a way that the discrete and continuous probability discussions arepresented in a separate, but parallel, manner. This organization dispels an overlyrigorous or formal view of probability and oers some strong pedagogical valuein that the discrete discussions can sometimes serve to motivate the more abstractcontinuous probability discussions. For use in a discrete probability course, studentsshould have taken one term of calculus as a prerequisite.Very little computing background is assumed or necessary in order to obtain fullbenets from the use of the computing material and examples in the text. All ofthe programs that are used in the text have been written in each of the languagesTrueBASIC, Maple, and Mathematica.This book is distributed on the Web as part of the Chance Project, which is de-voted to providing materials for beginning courses in probability and statistics. Thecomputer programs, solutions to the odd-numbered exercises, and current errata arealso available at this site. Instructors may obtain all of the solutions by writing toeither of the authors, at [email protected] and [email protected] PREFACEFEATURESLevel of rigor and emphasis: Probability is a wonderfully intuitive and applicableeld of mathematics. We have tried not to spoil its beauty by presenting too muchformal mathematics. Rather, we have tried to develop the key ideas in a somewhatleisurely style, to provide a variety of interesting applications to probability, and toshow some of the nonintuitive examples that make probability such a lively subject.Exercises: There are over 600 exercises in the text providing plenty of oppor-tunity for practicing skills and developing a sound understanding of the ideas. Inthe exercise sets are routine exercises to be done with and without the use of acomputer and more theoretical exercises to improve the understanding of basic con-cepts. More dicult exercises are indicated by an asterisk. A solution manual forall of the exercises is available to instructors.Historical remarks: Introductory probability is a subject in which the funda-mental ideas are still closely tied to those of the founders of the subject. For thisreason, there are numerous historical comments in the text, especially as they dealwith the development of discrete probability.Pedagogical use of computer programs: Probability theory makes predictionsabout experiments whose outcomes depend upon chance. Consequently, it lendsitself beautifully to the use of computers as a mathematical tool to simulate andanalyze chance experiments.In the text the computer is utilized in several ways. First, it provides a labora-tory where chance experiments can be simulated and the students can get a feelingfor the variety of such experiments. This use of the computer in probability hasbeen already beautifully illustrated by William Feller in the second edition of hisfamous text An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications (New York:Wiley, 1950). In the preface, Feller wrote about his treatment of uctuation in cointossing: The results are so amazing and so at variance with common intuitionthat even sophisticated colleagues doubted that coins actually misbehave as theorypredicts. The record of a simulated experiment is therefore included.In addition to providing a laboratory for the student, the computer is a powerfulaid in understanding basic results of probability theory. For example, the graphicalillustration of the approximation of the standardized binomial distributions to thenormal curve is a more convincing demonstration of the Central Limit Theoremthan many of the formal proofs of this fundamental result.Finally, the computer allows the student to solve problems that do not lendthemselves to closed-form formulas such as waiting times in queues. Indeed, theintroduction of the computer changes the way in which we look at many problemsin probability. For example, being able to calculate exact binomial probabilitiesfor experiments up to 1000 trials changes the way we view the normal and Poissonapproximations.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSAnyone writing a probability text today owes a great debt to William Feller,who taught us all how to make probability come alive as a subject matter. If youPREFACE ixnd an example, an application, or an exercise that you really like, it probably hadits origin in Fellers classic text, An Introduction to Probability Theory and ItsApplications.We are indebted to many people for their help in this undertaking. The approachto Markov Chains presented in the book was developed by John Kemeny and thesecond author. Reese Prosser was a silent co-author for the material on continuousprobability in an earlier version of this book. Mark Kernighan contributed 40 pagesof comments on the earlier edition. Many of these comments were very thought-provoking; in addition, they provided a students perspective on the book. Most ofthe major changes in this version of the book have their genesis in these notes.Fuxing Hou and Lee Nave provided extensive help with the typesetting andthe gures. John Finn provided valuable pedagogical advice on the text and andthe computer programs. Karl Knaub and Jessica Sklar are responsible for theimplementations of the computer programs in Mathematica and Maple. Jessicaand Gang Wang assisted with the solutions.Finally, we thank the American Mathematical Society, and in particular SergeiGelfand and John Ewing, for their interest in this book; their help in its production;and their willingness to make the work freely redistributable.x PREFACEChapter 1Discrete ProbabilityDistributions1.1 Simulation of Discrete ProbabilitiesProbabilityIn this chapter, we shall rst consider chance experiments with a nite number ofpossible outcomes 1, 2, . . . , n. For example, we roll a die and the possibleoutcomes are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 corresponding to the side that turns up. We toss a coinwith possible outcomes H (heads) and T (tails).It is frequently useful to be able to refer to an outcome of an experiment. Forexample, we might want to write the mathematical expression which gives the sumof four rolls of a die. To do this, we could let Xi, i = 1, 2, 3, 4, represent the valuesof the outcomes of the four rolls, and then we could write the expressionX1 +X2 +X3 +X4for the sum of the four rolls. The Xis are called random variables. A random vari-able is simply an expression whose value is the outcome of a particular experiment.Just as in the case of other types of variables in mathematics, random variables cantake on dierent values.Let X be the random variable which represents the roll of one die. We shallassign probabilities to the possible outcomes of this experiment. We do this byassigning to each outcome j a nonnegative number m(j) in such a way thatm(1) +m(2) + +m(6) = 1 .The function m(j) is called the distribution function of the random variable X.For the case of the roll of the die we would assign equal probabilities or probabilities1/6 to each of the outcomes. With this assignment of probabilities, one could writeP(X 4) = 2312 CHAPTER 1. DISCRE..</p>
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