Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering

Preface. Acknowledgements. PART 1: THEORY. Chapter 1: Review of Probability Theory. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Basic Set Theory. 1.3 Probability. 1.4 Conditional Probability. 1.5 Random Variables and Probability Distributions. 1.6 Measures of Central Tendency, Variability, and Association. 1.7 Linear Combinations of Random Variables. 1.8 Functions of Random Variables. 1.9 Common Discrete Probability Distributions. 1.10 Common Continuous Probability Distributions. 1.11 Extreme-Value Distributions. Chapter2: Discrete random Processes. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Discrete-Time, Discrete-State Markov Chains. 2.3 Continuous-Time Markov Chains. 2.4 Queueing Models. Chapter 3: Random Fields. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Covariance…