Fall 2023 Statistics GR6301 section 001

PROBABILITY THEORY I

Call Number 13417
Day & Time
Location
MW 2:40pm-3:55pm
903 School of Social Work
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Sumit Mukherjee
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Prerequisites: A thorough knowledge of elementary real analysis and some previous knowledge of probability. Overview of measure and integration theory. Probability spaces and measures, random variables and distribution functions. Independence, Borel-Cantelli lemma, zero-one laws. Expectation, uniform integrability, sums of independent random variables, stopping times, Wald's equations, elementary renewal theorems. Laws of large numbers. Characteristic functions. Central limit problem; Lindeberg-Feller theorem, infinitely divisible and stable distributions. Cramer's theorem, introduction to large deviations. Law of the iterated logarithm, Brownian motion, heat equation.
Web Site Vergil
Department Statistics
Enrollment 17 students (25 max) as of 7:06PM Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Subject Statistics
Number GR6301
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Open To GSAS
Campus Morningside
Note STAT PhD students only.
Section key 20233STAT6301G001