Probability Theory Independence, Interchangeability, Martingales

Apart from new examples and exercises, some simplifications of proofs, minor improvements, and correction of typographical errors, the principal change from the first edition is the addition of section 9.5, dealing with the central limit theorem for martingales and more general stochastic arrays. vi...

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Main Authors: Chow, Yuan S., Teicher, Henry (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1988, 1988
Edition:2nd ed. 1988
Series:Springer Texts in Statistics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Classes of Sets, Measures, and Probability Spaces
  • 1.1 Sets and set operations
  • 1.2 Spaces and indicators
  • 1.3 Sigma-algebras, measurable spaces, and product spaces
  • 1.4 Measurable transformations
  • 1.5 Additive set functions, measures, and probability spaces
  • 1.6 Induced measures and distribution functions
  • 2 Binomial Random Variables
  • 2.1 Poisson theorem, interchangeable events, and their limiting probabilities
  • 2.2 Bernoulli, Borel theorems
  • 2.3 Central limit theorem for binomial random variables, large deviations
  • 3 Independence
  • 3.1 Independence, random allocation of balls into cells
  • 3.2 Borel-Cantelli theorem, characterization of independence, Kolmogorov zero-one law
  • 3.3 Convergence in probability, almost certain convergence, and their equivalence for sums of independent random variables
  • 3.4 Bernoulli trials
  • 4 Integration in a Probability Space
  • 4.1 Definition, properties of the integral, monotone convergence theorem
  • 7.3 Conditional independence, interchangeable random variables
  • 7.4 Introduction to martingales
  • 8 Distribution Functions and Characteristic Functions
  • 8.1 Convergence of distribution functions, uniform integrability, Helly—Bray theorem
  • 8.2 Weak compactness, Fréchet-Shohat, Glivenko- Cantelli theorems
  • 8.3 Characteristic functions, inversion formula, Lévy continuity theorem
  • 8.4 The nature of characteristic functions, analytic characteristic functions, Cramér-Lévy theorem
  • 8.5 Remarks on k-dimensional distribution functions and characteristic functions
  • 9 Central Limit Theorems
  • 9.1 Independent components
  • 9.2 Interchangeable components
  • 9.3 The martingale case
  • 9.4 Miscellaneous central limit theorems
  • 9.5 Central limit theorems for double arrays
  • 10 Limit Theorems for Independent Random Variables
  • 10.1 Laws of large numbers
  • 10.2 Law of the iterated logarithm
  • 10.3 Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequality, dominated ergodic theorems
  • 4.2 Indefinite integrals, uniform integrability, mean convergence
  • 4.3 Jensen, Hölder, Schwarz inequalities
  • 5 Sums of Independent Random Variables
  • 5.1 Three series theorem
  • 5.2 Laws of large numbers
  • 5.3 Stopping times, copies of stopping times, Wald’s equation
  • 5.4 Chung-Fuchs theorem, elementary renewal theorem, optimal stopping
  • 6 Measure Extensions, Lebesgue-Stieltjes Measure, Kolmogorov Consistency Theorem
  • 6.1 Measure extensions, Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure
  • 6.2 Integration in a measure space
  • 6.3 Product measure, Fubini’s theorem, n-dimensional Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure
  • 6.4 Infinite-dimensional product measure space, Kolmogorov consistency theorem
  • 6.5 Absolute continuity of measures, distribution functions; Radon-Nikodym theorem
  • 7 Conditional Expectation, Conditional Independence, Introduction toMartingales
  • 7.1 Conditional expectations
  • 7.2 Conditional probabilities, conditional probability measures
  • 10.4 Maxima of random walks
  • 11 Martingales
  • 11.1 Upcrossing inequality and convergence
  • 11.2 Martingale extension of Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequalities
  • 11.3 Convex function inequalities for martingales
  • 11.4 Stochastic inequalities
  • 12 Infinitely Divisible Laws
  • 12.1 Infinitely divisible characteristic functions
  • 12.2 Infinitely divisible laws as limits
  • 12.3 Stable laws