Stochastic Processes

Stochastic Processes Synopsis

The material accumulated and presented in this volume can be ex- plained easily. At the start of my graduate studies in the early 1950s, I Grenander's (1950) thesis, and was much attracted to the came across entire subject considered there. I then began preparing for the neces- sary mathematics to appreciate and possibly make some contributions to the area.

Thus after a decade of learning and some publications on the way, I wanted to write a modest monograph complementing Grenander's fundamental memoir. So I took a sabbatical leave from my teaching position at the Carnegie-Mellon University, encouraged by an Air Force Grant for the purpose, and followed by a couple of years more learning opportunity at the Institute for Advanced Study to complete the project. As I progressed, the plan grew larger needing a substantial background material which was made into an independent initial volume in (1979).

In its preface I said:

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• My intension was to present the following material as the first part of a book treating the In- ference Theory of stochastic processes, but the latter account has now receded to a distant future,"e
• namely for two more decades! Meanwhile, a much enlarged second edition of that early work has appeared (1995), and now I am able to present the main part of the original plan