Probability and Random Processes

Many good textbooks exist on probability and random processes written at the under- graduate level to the research level. However, there is no one handy and ready book that explains most of the essential topics, such as random variables and most of their frequently used discrete and continuous probability distribution functions; moments, transformation, and convergences of random variables; characteristic and generating functions; estimation theory and the associated orthogonality principle; vector random variables; random processes and their autocovariance and cross-covariance functions; sta- tionarity concepts; and random processes through linear systems and the associated Wiener and Kalman filters.