A Minimum of Stochastics for Scientists
by Noel Corngold
Publisher: Caltech 2009
Number of pages: 77
Description:
The idea behind the book was to introduce students to the ideas and attitudes that underlie the statistical modeling of physical, chemical, biological systems. These pages contain material the author have tried to convey, in a course given occasionally, to a Caltech audience composed mostly of graduate students.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(730KB, PDF)
Similar books
Introduction to Probability Theory and Statistics for Linguisticsby Marcus Kracht - UCLA
Contents: Basic Probability Theory (Conditional Probability, Random Variables, Limit Theorems); Elements of Statistics (Estimators, Tests, Distributions, Correlation and Covariance, Linear Regression, Markov Chains); Probabilistic Linguistics.
(12638 views)
Probability and Statistics Cookbookby Matthias Vallentin
The cookbook contains a succinct representation of various topics in probability theory and statistics. It provides a comprehensive reference reduced to the mathematical essence, rather than aiming for elaborate explanations.
(18841 views)
Lectures on Noise Sensitivity and Percolationby Christophe Garban, Jeffrey E. Steif - arXiv
The goal of this set of lectures is to combine two seemingly unrelated topics: (1) The study of Boolean functions, a field particularly active in computer science; (2) Some models in statistical physics, mostly percolation.
(11333 views)
Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks on Graphsby David Aldous, James Allen Fill - University of California, Berkeley
From the table of contents: General Markov Chains; Reversible Markov Chains; Hitting and Convergence Time, and Flow Rate, Parameters for Reversible Markov Chains; Special Graphs and Trees; Cover Times; Symmetric Graphs and Chains; etc.
(13688 views)