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MA 546 Probability and Stochastic Processes I
Mathematical foundations of probability theory. Probabilistic measure theory, random variables and their distributions, construction of expectation. Notions of convergence: almost sure, in probability, in L^p, weak convergence, vague convergence. Conditioning, independence, Borel-Cantelli lemmas, weak and strong laws of large numbers, characteristic functions, central limit theorem, and related concentration inequalities.
Typically offered in Fall only
Statistics (PhD)
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