MATH 356Honours Probability
Fall 2022
Paquette, Elliot
3 credits
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci)
Faculty of Science

Overview

Sample space, probability axioms, combinatorial probability. Conditional probability, Bayes' Theorem. Distribution theory with special reference to the Binomial, Poisson, and Normal distributions. Expectations, moments, moment generating functions, uni-variate transformations. Random vectors, independence, correlation, multivariate transformations. Conditional distributions, conditional expectation.Modes of stochastic convergence, laws of large numbers, Central Limit Theorem.

This course is a prerequisite for 6 courses.