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877855 VO Probability Theory (2005S)

Probability Theory

0.00 ECTS (3.00 SWS), SPL 25 - Mathematik

Erstmals am 1. März 2005

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Language: German

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Aims, contents and method of the course

This mandatory lecture in the second part of the Mathematics study gives an elementary introduction into Probability Theory. The lecture is
divided into three parts. In the first part the notions of probability and conditional probability are introduced and the basic formulae for
caculations with probabilities are derived. The second part treats random variables and their distributions, independency of random
variables, expectation, variance and correlation, and formulae for calculations with density functions. The third part gives some results
on moment-generating and characteristic functions (Laplace transform, Fourier transform), which will turn out to be an importent and powerful tool. These tools will be used e.g. to prove the Central Limit Theorem.
Due to the fact that it is only based on Analysis and Linear Algebra this lecture can be attended to from the third semester on.

Assessment and permitted materials

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Examination topics

Reading list

Krickeberg, Klaus; Ziezold, Herbert: Stochastische Methoden.
Springer-Lehrbuch, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995.

Krengel, Ulrich: Einführung in die Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Statistik.
Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1988.

Georgii, Hans-Otto: Stochastik
de Gruyter, Berlin 2002.


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