PrefacetotheSecondEdition
PrefacetotheFirstEdition
Introduction
CHAPTERIElementaryProbabilityTheory
1.ProbabilisticModelofanExperimentwithaFiniteNumberofOutcomes
2.SomeClassicalModelsandDistributions
3.ConditionalProbability.Independence
4.RandomVariablesandTheirProperties
5.TheBernoulliScheme.I.TheLawofLargeNumbers
6.TheBernoulliScheme.II.LimitTheorems(Local,DeMoivre-Laplace,Poisson)
7.EstimatingtheProbabilityofSuccessintheBernoulliScheme
8.ConditionalProbabilitiesandMathematicalExpectationswithRespecttoDecompositions
9.RandomWalk.I.ProbabilitiesofRuinandMeanDurationinCoinTossing
10.RandomWalk.II.ReflectionPrinciple.ArcsineLaw
11.Martingales.SomeApplicationstotheRandomWalk
12.MarkovChains.ErgodicTheorem.StrongMarkovProperty
CHAPTERIIMathematicalFoundationsofProbabilityTheory
1.ProbabilisticModelforanExperimentwithInfinitelyManyOutcomes.Kolmogorov'sAxioms
2.Algebrasanda-algebras.MeasurableSpaces
3.MethodsofIntroducingProbabilityMeasuresonMeasurableSpaces
4.RandomVariables.I.
5.RandomElements
6.LebesgueIntegral.Expectation
7.ConditionalProbabilitiesandConditionalExpectationswithRespecttoaa-Algebra
8.RandomVariables.II.
9.ConstructionofaProcesswithGivenFinite-DimensionalDistribution
10.VariousKindsofConvergenceofSequencesofRandomVariables
11.TheHilbertSpaceofRandomVariableswithFiniteSecondMoment
12.CharacteristicFunctions
13.GaussianSystems
CHAPTERIIIConvergenceofProbabilityMeasures.CentralLimitTheorem
1.WeakConvergenceofProbabilityMeasuresandDistributions
2.RelativeCompactnessandTightnessofFamiliesofProbabilityDistributions
3.ProofsofLimitTheoremsbytheMethodofCharacteristicFunctions
4.CentralLimitTheoremforSumsofIndependentRandomVariables.I.TheLindebergCondition
5.CentralLimitTheoremforSumsofIndependentRandomVariables.II.NonclassicalConditions
6.InfinitelyDivisibleandStableDistributions
7.MetrizabilityofWeakConvergence
8.OntheConnectionofWeakConvergenceofMeasureswithAlmostSureConvergenceofRandomElements("MethodofaSingleProbabilitySpace")
9.TheDistanceinVariationbetweenProbabilityMeasures.
Kakutani-HellingerDistanceandHellingerIntegrals.ApplicationtoAbsoluteContinuityandSingularityofMeasures
10.ContiguityandEntireAsymptoticSeparationofProbabilityMeasures
11.RapidityofConvergenceintheCentralLimitTheorem
12.RapidityofConvergenceinPoisson'sTheorem
CHAPTERIVSequencesandSumsofIndependentRandomVariables
1.Zero-or-OneLaws
2.ConvergenceofSeries
3.StrongLawofLargeNumbers
4.LawoftheIteratedLogarithm
5.RapidityofConvergenceintheStrongLawofLargeNumbersandintheProbabilitiesofLargeDeviations
CHAPTERV
Stationary(StrictSense)RandomSequencesandErgodicTheory
1.Stationary(StrictSense)RandomSequences.Measure-PreservingTransformations
2.ErgodicityandMixing
3.ErgodicTheorems
CHAPTERVI
Stationary(WideSense)RandomSequences.L2Theory
1.SpectralRepresentationoftheCovarianceFunction
2.OrthogonalStochasticMeasuresandStochasticIntegrals
3.SpectralRepresentationofStationary(WideSense)Sequences
4.StatisticalEstimationoftheCovarianceFunctionandtheSpectralDensity
5.Wold'sExpansion
6.Extrapolation.InterpolationandFiltering
7.TheKalman-BucyFilterandItsGeneralizations
CHAPTERVII
SequencesofRandomVariablesthatFormMartingales
1.DefinitionsofMartingalesandRelatedConcepts
2.PreservationoftheMartingalePropertyUnderTimeChangeataRandomTime
3.FundamentalInequalities
4.GeneralTheoremsontheConvergenceofSubmartingalesandMartingales
5.SetsofConvergenceofSubmartingalesandMartingales
6.AbsoluteContinuityandSingularityofProbabilityDistributions
7.AsymptoticsoftheProbabilityoftheOutcomeofaRandomWalkwithCurvilinearBoundary
8.CentralLimitTheoremforSumsofDependentRandomVariables
9.DiscreteVersionofIto'sFormula
10.ApplicationstoCalculationsoftheProbabilityofRuininInsurance
CHAPTERVIII
SequencesofRandomVariablesthatFormMarkovChains
1.DefinitionsandBasicProperties
2.ClassificationoftheStatesofaMarkovChaininTermsofArithmeticPropertiesoftheTransitionProbabilitiesPij(n)
3.ClassificationoftheStatesofaMarkovChaininTermsofAsymptoticPropertiesoftheProbabilitiesPij(n)
4.OntheExistenceofLimitsandofStationaryDistributions
5.Examples
HistoricalandBibliographicalNotes
References
InclexofSymbols
Index