Introduction to Probability by Charles M. Grinstead and J. Laurie Snell Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
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Publisher of the underlying book: American Mathematical Society.
The linked CHANCE Project version is dated 4 July 2006. Its cover identifies the underlying second-edition book as copyright 2003 by the two authors, and this version as copyright 2006 by Peter G. Doyle. The version credit does not identify Doyle as an original-book coauthor or formal editor. These dates describe copyrights and a version, rather than a claim about first publication.
Cited passages: §3.1, Example 3.3 and Table 3.1, printed pp. 77–78: uniform-calendar assumptions, distinct-label product and threshold.
Section 6.1, Definition 6.1, printed p. 226, defines finite discrete expectation by summing values weighted by their probabilities. This is the discrete calculation used in nonnegative random variable. Online text: math.dartmouth.edu/~prob/prob/prob.pdf .
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