This course covers foundations of probability theory, combinatorial and counting methods, conditional probability, random variables, discrete and continuous distributions, expectation, moment generating functions, multivariate distributions, variable transformations, the Law of Large Numbers and the Central Limit Theorem. Prerequisite: MATH 162 Calculus II.
Course learning outcomes
1. Use basic counting techniques (multiplication rule, combinations, and permutations) to compute conditional probabilities directly and using Bayes' theorem and check for independence of events.
2. Introduce random variables and work with discrete and continuous random variables. In particular, understand the basic properties of Bernoulli, binomial, geometric Poisson distributions, uniform, Gamma and exponential, normal distribution and compute the central limit theorem.
3. Be able to compute the expectation, variance, covariance and correlation between jointly distributed variables, Moment generating functions, Transformation of random variables and the computation of order statistics.
4. Apply knowledge of probability to solve problems from the field of electronic, electrical and communications of applicable nature, falling in both discrete and continuous domain.