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Servingasthefoundationforaone-semestercourseinstochasticprocessesforstudentsfamiliarwithelementaryprobabilitytheoryandcalculus,IntroductiontoStochasticModeling,ThirdEditionbridgesthegapbetweenbasicprobabilityandanintermediatelevelcourseinstochasticprocesses.Theobjectivesofthetextaretointroducestudentstothestandardconceptsandmethodsofstochasticmodeling,toillustratetherichdiversityofapplicationsofstochasticprocessesintheappliedsciences,andtoprovideexercisesintheapplicationofsimplestochasticanalysistorealisticproblems.Realisticapplicationsfromavarietyofdisciplinesintegratedthroughout.Plentiful,updatedandmorerigorousproblems,includingcomputer"challenges".Revisedend-of-chapterexercisessets-inall,250exerciseswithanswers.NewchapteronBrownianmotionandrelatedprocesses.AdditionalsectionsonMatingalesandPoissonprocess.Solutionsmanualavailabletoadoptinginstructors