The salient features of this book are
. Functional and statistical independence of random variables are explained.
. Ready reference to commonly occurring density and distribution functions and their
means and variances is provided.
. A section on Benford’s logarithmic law, which is used in detecting tax fraud, is
included.
. More than 300 examples, many of them solved in different ways to illustrate the
theory and various applications of probability, are presented.
. Most examples have been substantiated with graphs drawn to scale.
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