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Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

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The book arises from lectures at UNC-CH in a two-semester course on stochastic models. The author has exceptional precision and
organization in the classroom, and this comes through in the book. Great book for teaching
from, as well as learning from.

This book also takes a step which more venerable texts, such as the Trivedi book or the Ross series
could not -- it has computational excercises suitable for math packages like Mathematica. Thus,
the student can be introduced to scientific computer literacy as well as stochastic processes.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in teaching today's student, or for preparing themselves
for challenges in Operations Research. The book would make an above-average reference as well.

Mike Bailey
Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School

I used this book in a graduate course on Stochastic processes. The book would rate as average or just above that as I found it to be insufficient for a start in the subject unless you were in a classroom course. It does assume some background in probabilty. Also, the explanations, while complete, are not as easy to understand as the Roos book. I also found that the examples were extremely easy as compared to the excersice problems. THis makes it tougher to 'extrapolate' and understand. It has one nice feature though- solutions to half the problems are there at the end of the book making it better for students while giving faculty leeway too. The excercises are quite comprehensive too. I'd say this is an excellent book for someone with some prior knowlede of Stochastic Processes. For a beginner, this may not be the best start.

This text book isn't great but it isn't awful either. There are numerous typos and mistakes in the book. The author has a list of errata on his webpage that is 7 pages long and that is only a partial list. The explaination in the book is okay and the exercises are pretty good. If you have a choice I recommend using the text by Ross for learning the material or Karlin and Taylor for reference.

This is a good book. It has concentrated on the modeling aspect a lot. But if you lack a little basics or aren't comfortable with the Probability & Statistics, you would have to study them first and then acquire this. This book takes it for granted that you are thorough with your basics.

Therefore for students who performed average in prob& statistics, get your basics done before taking this up.

But trust me, this is a good book about Stochastic processes.

I ve bought this book for my Stochastic class.It is usefull an consisting lots of exercises and you can even find the answers of the odd questions at the back of the book as the others.

Quick delivery but there were small scratches on the front cover.