MA 261: Probability Models

Credits: 3:0


Sample spaces, events, probability, discrete and continuous random variables, Conditioning and independence, Bayes’  formula, moments and moment generating function, characteristic function, laws of large numbers, central limit theorem, Markov chains, Poisson processes.  


Suggested books and references:

  1. Ross, S.M. , Introduction to Probability Models, Academic Press 1993.
  2. Taylor, H.M., and Karlin, S., An Introduction to Stochastic Modelling, Academic Press, 1994.

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Last updated: 20 Mar 2023