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Book SynopsisThis definitive textbook provides a solid introduction to stochastic processes, covering both theory and applications. It is written by one of the world's leading information theorists, evolving over twenty years of graduate classroom teaching, and is accompanied by over 300 exercises, with online solutions for instructors.
Table of Contents1. Introduction and review of probability; 2. Poisson processes; 3. Gaussian random vectors and processes; 4. Finite-state Markov chains; 5. Renewal processes; 6. Countable-state Markov chains; 7. Markov processes with countable state spaces; 8. Detection, decisions, and hypothesis testing; 9. Random walks, large deviations, and martingales; 10. Estimation.
