Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Analysis of Random Experiments -- Probability in Electrical and Computer Engineering -- Signal detection and classification -- Speech modeling and recognition -- Coding and data transmission -- Computer networks -- The Probability Model -- The Algebra of Events -- Basic operations -- Representation of the sample space -- Probability of Events -- Defining probability -- Statistical independence -- Some Applications -- Repeated independent trials -- Problems involving counting -- Network reliability -- Conditional Probability and Bayes' Rule -- Conditional probability -- Event trees -- Bayes' rule -- More Applications -- The binary communication channel -- Measuring information and coding -- Random Variables and Transformations -- Discrete Random Variables -- Common Discrete Probability Distributions -- Bernoulli random variable -- Binomial random variable -- Geometric random variable -- Poisson random variable -- Discrete uniform random variable -- Continuous Random Variables -- Probabilistic description -- More about the PDF -- A relation to discrete random variables -- Solving problems -- Common Continuous Probability Density Functions -- Uniform random variable -- Exponential random variable -- Gaussian random variable -- CDF and PDF for Discrete and Mixed Random Variables -- Discrete random variables -- Mixed random variables -- Fransformation of Random Variables -- When the transformation is invertible -- When the transformation is not invertible -- When the transformation has discontinuities or flat regions.

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