Random Variables and Their Distributions
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چکیده
Contents 1. Introduction. 2. The distribution function of a random variable. 3. Classification of random variables. 4. Some special discrete probability distributions. 5. Some special continuous probability distributions. 6. Location characteristics of a real-valued random variable. 7. Dispersion characteristics of a real-valued random variable. 8. Joint distribution functions. 9. Independence of random variables. 10. Random variables in statistics. 11. The moments and the characteristic function of a random variable. 12. Conditional probability distributions, 13. Probability distributions presented as Borel measures. Appendix Acknowledgements Glossary Bibliography Biographical Sketch
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