Polyteknisk Boghandel

This is the second volume in a series of short books on probability theory and random processes for biomedical engineers. The companion volumes are Basic Probability Theory for Biomedical Engineers (ISBN 1598290606) and Advanced Probability Theory for Biomedical Engineers (ISBN 1598291505).This short book focuses on expectation, standard deviation, moments, and the characteristic function. In addition, conditional expectation, conditional moments and the conditional characteristic function are also discussed. Jointly distributed random variables are described, along with joint expectation, joint moments, and the joint characteristic function. Convolution is also developed.A considerable effort has been made to develop the theory in a logical manner-developing special mathematical skills as needed. The mathematical background required of the reader is basic knowledge of differential calculus. Every effort has been made to be consistent with commonly used notation and terminology-both within the engineering community as well as the probability and statistics literature.