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Statistics of Random Processes I: General Theory (Applications of Mathematics, 5)

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This is volume 1 of a famous masterpiece. It has an ample coverage of a very interesting and useful subject. It is very well organized, and the style is very appealing. The big problem is the incredibly large number of typos! Some are irrelevant, some others are annoying, and the rest are just dangerous, the kind that can make you question your own sanity until you realize there is a mistake. The problem is particularly vexing because it is the second edition, and the authors claim they did not change this volume very much. Then it means that the publishers did not bother to correct the typos from the first edition, a serious case of malpractice. The problem is so huge that I am returning Volume 2. (By the way, the second edition of Shiryaev's classic book on Probability suffers from the same problem, lots and lots of typos.) The editors and publishers could pay more attention to proofreading books of this sort, in which even a small typo can seriously mar the presentation of the argument. Or at least they could provide errata lists on the Web.

This book contain all generalized concept of random processes which is very classic and good book but we are all know that first version of this book have many typing error. Due to difficulty of this book, any printing mistake can make you stuck for a really long time (for real). In the hope of some improvement that second edition will fix any mistake occur in first book. In reality, it is a big surprise to me that there is a LOT of typo error. In addition, I realized after borrow first edition from my professor that THIS SECOND edition have MORE typing mistake than first one...

In my opinion, for any people who really need to read this book for their research or interest, try to find old first edition.

Buy this one if and only if you cannot find first edition...

I'm interesting in this book, becouse i need it to make a homework.