93762 - ADVANCED PROBABILITY

Anno Accademico 2020/2021

  • Docente: Pietro Rigo
  • Crediti formativi: 6
  • SSD: MAT/06
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Statistical sciences (cod. 9222)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

By the end of the course the student acquires the fundamental notions of the theories of conditional probability and weak convergence of probability measures. In particular, the student is able to investigate the asymptotic behaviour of sequences of probability measures arising in statistical inference and to coherently employ the concept of conditional probability in the statistical investigation.

Contenuti

Probability spaces

A few elementary notions of measure theory

Random variables and their probability distributions

Probability measures on R and R^n

Moments

Conditional distributions

Characteristic functions

Weak convergence of probability measures

Other modes of convergence

Laws of large numbers

Central limit theorems

Testi/Bibliografia

Billingsley P. (1986) Probability and measure, Wiley, New York

Dall'Aglio G. (1987) Calcolo delle probabilita', Zanichelli.

Grimmett G. and Stirzaker D. (2001) Probability and random processes, Oxford University Press.

Metodi didattici

Lectures and class exercises

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The first part of the exam consists of a written assignment. The second part, subject to overcoming the first, lies in an oral interview

 

 

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Notes and the text-books quoted above

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Pietro Rigo