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Message: <blockquote data-quote="marasinghe984" data-source="post: 9431186" data-attributes="member: 112609">Introduction to Probability Theory (The Houghton Mifflin series in statistics)     Paul G. Hoel, Sidney C. Port, Charles J. Stone                   ebook size: 1.62 MB     ebook type: .djvu      ebook md5: fea7e1bd126afb019928afe3922ccbea               download link       Code:   <a href="http://ifile.it/cwqdk6u/_85DGFPXY.7z" target="_blank">http://ifile.it/cwqdk6u/_85DGFPXY.7z</a>          7zip archive password       Code:   gigapedia.com          description       Quote:   <img src="http://img8.warez-bb.org/images/bg_quote_header.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Introduction to Probability Theory (Norton Critical Edition) By Paul G. Hoel, Sidney C. Port, Charles J. StonePublisher:   Houghton  Mifflin Company Number Of Pages:   258 Publication Date:   1971-06  ISBN-10 / ASIN:   039504636X ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780395046364 Binding:    Hardcover Summary: Better than its follow up statistics book.Rating:  4This is a good book. Better than its follow up statistics book in  accomplishing its goal imo. However recent price hiking on the new text  by the publisher ruins its value. If you are getting a 12 dollar used  copy you are getting a good value. If you are getting a 135 dollar new  copy you are getting fleeced or forced into a horrible purchase by an  instructor.Summary: Excellent BookRating: 5I agree with everything other  reviewers have said about this book and more.Summary: Excellent  Introduction to ProbabilityRating: 5I first noticed this book during the  time that I spent at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate applied  mathematics major. It was being used for Stat 101, and though I was not  taking that course, I bought it because it looked even from casual  inspection to be very well laid out, covering important and interesting  issues in basic probability. The strongest feature of this book from my  point of view is its conciseness. Much is presented in as short a time  as possible, and because of that the book is much more readable than  many others of its level. In addition to conciseness, the authors (in my  edition Hoel, Port, and Stone) have made a commendable effort to  present the reader with clear and concrete definitions, compact theorems  (many proven), and abundant useful examples. In the back of the book  nearly all of the solutions of the chapter exercises are given, unlike  many books where answers to only the odd problems are given. I believe  that this book is ideal for self-study, and that much use of it could  also be made as a textbook for an undergraduate course in probability.  The exercises are not very difficult, but they are by no means trivial,  and much can be learned from them. At the end of a close study of this  book the reader would be ready to enter into a program of undergraduate  level mathematical statistics, or into a further study of probability  with the confidence inspired by a firm understanding of the most  fundamental and key concepts in probability theory.Summary: If you want  to learn elementary probability, get this bookRating: 5This was the book  used in the standard upper-division probability course at UC Berkeley  when I took it 18 years ago. In my opinion it is still the best. I have  since taught the subject myself and was forced to use other books, with  many more pages and fancy pictures than Hoel's book. Yet those books do  not do anywhere near as good a job of teaching probabilistic *thinking*  as well as Hoel. This is what causes the most problems for students of  probability, and Hoel does it the right way in Chapters 1 and 2, which  are key. The basic explanations are clear and concise, with many  instructive examples. My professor back then told us that if we want to  learn probability, then do every exercise in this book. She was  absolutely right. The exercises are excellent. Do them, and you will  learn a lot. This used to be *the* book on elementary calculus-based  probability theory at most universities. I don't understand why it seems  to have fallen out of favor. Perhaps because of its size (it is fairly  compact, as it should be) and age, though I fear that it may be because  it is a bit more demanding (but worth it) than many of the newer  books.Summary: Excellent textbook!!Rating: 5This classical text is  complete and detailed. I'm an undergraduate and used the book after  acquiring the basics of multiple integration as an introduction to the  calculus of probability. Plenty of exercises (answers provided) which  not only help you understanding the theory but are also complementary to  the text. (This is a "non-measure" text on probability theory.) Well  written!!!! (see also Hoel at al., 'Int. to Stochastic Processes', and  Taylor, 'An Int. to Measure and Probability',(Springer-Verlag)).</blockquote>

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