Probability in Petroleum and Environmental Engineering

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
PREFACE, Page xiii
LIST OF NOTATIONS, Page xv
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION, Pages 1-7
CHAPTER 2 - EXPERIMENTS AND EVENTS, Pages 9-24
CHAPTER 3 - SPACE OF ELEMENTARY EVENTS, Pages 25-39
CHAPTER 4 - PROBABILITY OF RANDOM EVENTS, Pages 41-59
CHAPTER 5 - CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY AND STOCHASTIC INDEPENDENCE: Multistage Probabilistic Evaluation and Forecasting, Pages 61-74
CHAPTER 6 - BERNOULLI DISTRIBUTION AND SEQUENCES OF INDEPENDENT TRIALS, Pages 75-87
CHAPTER 7 - RANDOM VARIABLES AND DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS, Pages 89-109
CHAPTER 8 - NUMERICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RANDOM VARIABLES: Mathematical Expectation, Variance, and Moments of Higher Order, Pages 111-127
CHAPTER 9 - NUMERICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RANDOM VARIABLES: Quantiles, Pages 129-144
CHAPTER 10 - PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: Discrete Case, Pages 145-162
CHAPTER 11 - PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: Continuous Case, Pages 163-189
CHAPTER 12 - LIMIT THEOREMS OF THE PROBABILITY THEORY, Pages 191-206
CHAPTER 13 - PROBABILISTIC DECISION MAKING, Pages 207-233
APPENDIX 1 - PRINCIPLES OF SET THEORY, Pages 235-244
APPENDIX 2 - METHODS OF COUNTING, Pages 245-248
APPENDIX 3 - STATISTICAL COMPARISON OF AN ORIGINAL DATA SET WITH ITS SUBSET IN OIL SPILL STUDIES, Pages 249-259
APPENDIX 4 - STANDARD NORMAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION, Pages 261-262
REFERENCES, Pages 263-267
AUTHOR INDEX, Page 269
SUBJECT INDEX, Pages 271-275