Elementary course in probability for the cryptanalyst /
Andrew M. Gleason ; revised by Walter F. Penney and Ronald E. Wyllys.
- 2nd ed.
- California : Aegean Park Press, 1985.
- v, various pagings : ill. ; 28 cm. + pbk.
- Cryptographic series ; 41 .
Includes indexes.
Basic definition: fundamental operations -- Permutations and combinations -- Combinations with repetitions: Pascal's triangle -- The binomial theorem: Bernoulli's theorem -- Binomial coefficients: generalized theorem: multinomial theorem -- Event spaces: boolean algebra: addition of probabilities -- Gambler's ruin: conditional probability: independence: Baye's theorem -- Mean: standard deviation -- Philosophy: random variables: expected value: variance: Bernoulli trials: Binomial distribution -- The normal distribution -- Poisson distribution -- Tests of statistical hypotheses -- Logarithmic weighting: Chi-square test.