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Selected topics in probability and statistics >> Syllabus
 
 
1. Measure theoretic foundations of probability.
1.1 σ-algebras, measures.
1.2 Abstract Lebesgue integral, basic theorems, probability spaces, random variables.
1.3 Distributions and expectations.
1.4 Product measures, independence.
1.5 Lp-spaces.
2. Conditional expectations.
2.1 Definition and existence of conditional expectations.
2.2 Properties of conditional expectations.
2.3 Conditional distributions.
3. Martingales.
3.1 Definitions and basic properties.
3.2 Optional sampling theorem.
3.3 Convergence theorems.
3.4 Uniformly integrable martingales.
3.5 Maximal inequalities.
4. Convergence of random variables.
4.1 Types of convergence.
4.1 Basic theorems.
4.2 Characteristic functions, convergence theorems.
4.3 The central limit theorem.
5. Selected applications.
5.1 The probabilistic method.
5.2 Primer on combinatorial stochastic processes.