STAT 461: Applied Probability Models
STAT 461
Spring 2022
Monday-Wednesday-Friday, 11:00 - 11:50 am BSB 337
Instructor
Will Perkins
willp@uic.edu
Office: SEO 626
Office Hours: TBA
Course Information
Main Topics of the Course:
Probability spaces, independence, conditioning
Expectation and variance
Concentration inequalities
Urn models
Random walks
Martingales
Markov chains
Branching processes
Point processes
Continuous time processes
Syllabus
References
Probability and Random Processes
, Grimmett and Stirzaker.
Markov Chains and Mixing Times
, Levin and Peres
Probability and the Real World
, Aldous
Schedule
Jan 10
Probabilistic modeling
Jan 12
Probability spaces
Jan 14
Independence and conditioning
Jan 19
Expectation