Preface to the Classics Edition |
Preface |
Role of the Theory of Stochastic Processes |
Statistical physics |
Stochastic models for population growth |
Communication and control |
Management science |
Time series analysis |
Random Variables and Stochastic Processes / 1: |
Random variables and probability laws / 1-1: |
Describing the probability law of a stochastic process / 1-2: |
The Wiener process and the Poisson process / 1-3: |
Two-valued processes / 1-4: |
Conditional Probability and Conditional Expectation / 2: |
Conditioning by a discrete random variable / 2-1: |
Conditioning by a continuous random variable / 2-2: |
Properties of conditional expectation / 2-3: |
Normal Processes and Covariance Stationary Processes / 3: |
The mean value function and covariance kernel of a stochastic process / 3-1: |
Stationary and evolutionary processes / 3-2: |
Integration and differentiation of stochastic processes / 3-3: |
Normal processes / 3-4: |
Normal processes as limits of stochastic processes / 3-5: |
Harmonic analysis of stochastic processes / 3-6: |
Counting Processes and Poisson Processes / 4: |
Axiomatic derivations of the Poisson process / 4-1: |
Non-homogeneous, generalized, and compound Poisson processes / 4-2: |
Inter-arrival times and waiting times / 4-3: |
The uniform distribution of waiting times of a Poisson process / 4-4: |
Filtered Poisson processes / 4-5: |
Renewal Counting Processes / 5: |
Examples of renewal counting processes / 5-1: |
The renewal equation / 5-2: |
Limit theorems for renewal counting processes / 5-3: |
Markov Chains: Discrete Parameter / 6: |
Formal definition of a Markov process / 6-1: |
Transition probabilities and the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation / 6-2: |
Decomposition of Markov chains into communicating classes / 6-3: |
Occupation times and first passage times / 6-4: |
Recurrent and non-recurrent states and classes / 6-5: |
First passage and absorption probabilities / 6-6: |
Mean absorption, first passage, and recurrence times / 6-7: |
Long-run and stationary distributions / 6-8: |
Limit theorems for occupation times / 6-9: |
Limit theorems for transition probabilities of a finite Markov chain / 6-10: |
The interchange of limiting processes / Appendix: |
Markov Chains: Continuous Parameter / 7: |
Limit theorems for transition probabilities of a continuous parameter Markov chain / 7-1: |
Birth and death processes and their application to queueing theory / 7-2: |
Kolmogorov differential equations for the transition probability functions / 7-3: |
Two-state Markov chains and pure birth processes / 7-4: |
Non-homogeneous birth and death processes / 7-5: |
References |
Author Index |
Subject Index |
Preface to the Classics Edition |
Preface |
Role of the Theory of Stochastic Processes |