MATH 170A

Probability Theory I

Mathematics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Not open to students with credit for course 170E, Electrical and Computer Engineering 131A, or Statistics 100A. Rigorous presentation of probability theory based on real analysis. Probability space, probability and conditional probability, independence, Bayes’ rule, discrete and continuous random variables and their distributions, expectation, moments and variance, conditional distribution and expectation, weak law of large numbers.

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Requisites: courses 32B, 33A, 131A.

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MATH 170A

MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus1 more beneath
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it

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