Stochastic Systems Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation
Uncertainty is an inherent feature of both properties of physical systems and the inputs to these systems that needs to be quantified for cost effective and reliable designs. The states of these systems satisfy equations with random entries, referred to a
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Mircea Grigoriu
Stochastic Systems Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation
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Mircea Grigoriu Cornell University Hollister Hall 14853 Ithaca NY, USA
ISSN 1614-7839 ISBN 978-1-4471-2326-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-2327-9
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Contents
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Introduction . . . . . . 1.1 Introduction. . . 1.2 Organization . . 1.3 Classroom Use. References . . . . . . . .
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Essentials of Probability Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Probability Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.1 Sample Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.2 r-Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.3 Probability Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.4 Construction of Probability Spaces. . . . . 2.3 Measurable Functions and Random Elements . . . 2.4 Independence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 Sequence of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6 Expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7 Convergence of Sequences of Random Variables. 2.8 Radon–Nikodym Derivative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.9 Distribution and Density Functions . . . . . . . . . . 2.10 Charac
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