Fall 2025 Statistics GR6301 section 001

PROBABILITY THEORY I

Call Number 13815
Day & Time
Location
MW 2:40pm-3:55pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Anne Van Delft
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 0 students (25 max) as of 3:06PM Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Subject Statistics
Number GR6301
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Open To GSAS
Note STAT PhD students only.
Section key 20253STAT6301G001