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Probability is the mathematics of uncertainty. It has flourished under the stimulus of applications. Phenomena as diverse as games of chance, insurance, demography, waiting lines, astronomy, agricultural experiments, clinical trials, signal processing, traffic flow, reliability of complex systems, population growth, spread of infectious diseases, genetics, neurophysiology, microstructure of materials, precipitation, storage systems, telecommunications, statistical mechanics, earthquakes and medical imaging have furnished both difficult mathematical questions and genuine interest in the answers.
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Karr, A.F. (1993). Probability. In: Probability. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0891-4_2
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