FOUNDATIONS
OF PROBABILITY
THEORY
autumn
2008, 7.5 points
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Independence and Conditioning:
conditional
probabilities, the
second Borel-Cantelli lemma, the strong law of large
numbers, random walk and the Markov
property.
*
Transforms:
probability
generating
functions, moment generating functions, Laplace transforms,
characteristic functions, Poisson
approximation, the central limit
theorem.
The book to be used is
Williams: Weighing the
Odds
(Cambridge University Press 2001).
It is available in paperback; the plan is to take Chapters 1-5
and part of the first
section in Chapter 9 as a base for
the course. If you like to know
more about the
author, click here: Williams . On that
home page, you also find a link to the book.
The schedule looks as follows:
lectures: Mondays and Wendesdays,
10.00-11.45
classes: Mondays, 13.15-15.00
And the location is the same throughout: MVF33
But in the first week, the
Monday sessions are cancelled;
there is instead a lecture on Tuesday, October 28, at 10.00 in MVF 21.
See you on Tuesday, October 28, at. 10.00!
Torgny Lindvall &
Marcus Warfheimer
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