This textbook, now in its fourth edition, offers a rigorous and self-contained introduction to the theory of continuous-time stochastic processes, stochastic integrals, and stochastic differential equations. Expertly balancing theory and applications, it features concrete examples of modeling real-world problems from biology, medicine, finance, and insurance using stochastic methods. No previous knowledge of stochastic processes is required. Unlike other books on stochastic methods that specialize in a specific field of applications, this volume examines the ways in which similar stochastic methods can be applied across di erent elds.
Autorentext
Vincenzo Capasso is a Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Milan, an elected member of the International Statistics Institute, a Fellow of The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications - UK, Past President of ECMI (the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry), and Past President of ESMTB (European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology).
Inhalt
Foreword.- Preface to the Fourth Edition.- Preface to the Third Edition.- Preface to the Second Edition.- Preface.- Part I: Theory of Stochastic Processes.- Fundamentals of Probability.- Stochastic Processes.- The Itô Integral.- Stochastic Differential Equations.- Stability, Stationary, Ergodicity.- Part II: Applications of Stochastic Processes.- Applications to Finance and Insurance.- Applications to Biology and Medicine.- Measure and Integration.- Convergence of Probability Measures on Metric Spaces.- Diffusion Approximation of a Langevin System.- Elliptic and Parabolic Equations.- Semigroups of Linear Operators.- Stability of Ordinary Differential Equations.- References.- Nomenclature.- Index.