INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS I

MATH/STAT 431

Topics covered include axioms of probability, random variables, the most important discrete and continuous probability distributions, expectation and variance, moment generating functions, conditional probability and conditional expectations, multivariate distributions, Markov's and Chebyshev's inequalities, laws of large numbers, and the central limit theorem.

MATH/STAT 709

An introduction to measure theoretic probability, random variables, and high-dimensional statistics; conditional expectation, sufficiency, and unbiased estimation; methods of large sample theory including laws of large numbers and central limit theorems.

MATH 331

Topics covered include axioms of probability, random variables, the most important discrete and continuous probability distributions, expectation and variance, conditional probability and conditional expectations, Markov's and Chebyshev's inequalities, laws of large numbers, and the central limit theorem. Includes a brief introduction to techniques of multivariate integration.

STAT 311

Elements of probability, important discrete distributions, acceptance sampling by attributes, sample characteristics, probability distributions and population characteristics, the normal distribution, acceptance sampling plans based on sample means and variances, sampling from the normal, the central limit theorem, point and interval estimation.

STAT 609

Review of probability, random variables and vectors and their distributions, moments and inequalities, generating functions, transformations of random variables, sampling and distribution theory, convergence concepts for sequences of random variables, laws of large numbers, central limit and other limit theorems.