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MATH 4710 - Basic Probability


(MQR)
Fall. 4 credits.

Forbidden Overlap: Students will receive credit for only one course among BTRY 3080 /ILRST 3080 /STSCI 3080 , ECON 3190 , MATH 4710.
Prerequisites: one year of calculus. Recommended: some knowledge of multivariate calculus.

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Introduction to probability theory, which prepares the student to take MATH 4720 . The course begins with basics: combinatorial probability, mean and variance, independence, conditional probability, and Bayes formula. Density and distribution functions and their properties are introduced. The law of large numbers and the central limit theorem are stated and their implications for statistics are discussed.



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