Pinsky, Mark A.,  1940- <br/><br/>
An introduction to stochastic modeling / 
Mark A. Pinsky, Samuel Karlin. 
 - 4th ed. 
 - xiv, 563 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> 'Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier.'--Title page verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-542) and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction --  Conditional probability and conditional expectation --  Markov chains: introduction --  Long run behavior of Markov chains --  Poisson processes --  Continuous time Markov chains --  Renewal phenomena --  Brownian motion and related processes --  Queueing systems --  Random evolutions --  Characteristic functions and their applications.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780123814166  RM431.78 0123814162 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Stochastic processes.