College Bulletin 2015-2016 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
College Bulletin 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

STAT 051. Probability


Introduction to the mathematical theory of probability. Topics include sample spaces and events, conditional probability and Bayes’ theorem, univariate probability and density functions, expectation and variance, moment generating functions, Binomial, Negative Binomial, Poisson, Normal, t, Gamma and Beta distributions, joint, marginal and conditional distributions, independence, transformations, the multivariate Normal distribution, the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem.
Prerequisite:  MATH 033  , MATH 034  , MATH 035   or permission of the instructor.
Natural Science and Engineering
1 credit.
Fall 2015. McConville.
Fall 2016. staff.
Fall 2017. staff.
Catalog chapter: Mathematics and Statistics  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/mathematics-statistics


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