Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: APPLIED PROBABILITY

Department: Statistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group III

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): MATH 211 AND MATH 212

Description: Applied probability with applications from reliability, operations research, and population biology. Topics include: axioms of probability; conditional probability; in dependence; random variables; probability distribution functions; parametric families of distributions; expectation and conditional expectation; generation functions; law of large numbers; central limit theorem; discrete-time Markov chains; branching and Poisson processes. Cross-list: ELEC 331.