TY - BOOK AU - Pinsky,Mark A. AU - Karlin,Samuel TI - An introduction to stochastic modeling SN - 9780123814166 PY - 2011/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Academic Press KW - Stochastic processes N1 - 'Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier.'--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-542) and index; 1; Introduction --; 2; Conditional probability and conditional expectation --; 3; Markov chains: introduction --; 4; Long run behavior of Markov chains --; 5; Poisson processes --; 6; Continuous time Markov chains --; 7; Renewal phenomena --; 8; Brownian motion and related processes --; 9; Queueing systems --; 10; Random evolutions --; 11; Characteristic functions and their applications ER -