Probability and Statistics by Example: Volume 1, Basic Probability and Statistics

Preface Extracts

This book is organised as follows. In the first two chapters we present the material

of the IA Probability course (which consists of 24 one-hour lectures). In this part the

Tripos questions are placed within or immediately following the corresponding parts of

the expository text. In Chapters 3 and 4 we present the material from the 16-lecture IB

Statistics course. Here, the Tripos questions tend to embrace a wider range of single topics,

and we decided to keep them separate from the course material. However, the various

pieces of theory are always presented with a view to the rôle they play in examination

questions.

Displayed equations, problems and examples are numbered by chapter: for instance, in

Chapter 2 equation numbers run from (2.1) to (2.102), and there are Problems 2.1–2.55.

Symbol
marks the end of a solution of a given problem. Symbol  marks the end