Stat 134: Concepts of Probability
UC Berkeley
Offerings
Overview
An introduction to probability, emphasizing concepts and applications. Conditional expectation, independence, laws of large numbers. Discrete and continuous random variables. Central limit theorem. Selected topics such as the Poisson process, Markov chains, characteristic functions.
Logistics
Three hours of lecture and two hours of discussion per week. Six hours of lecture and four hours of discussion per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites
One year of calculus.