STAT - 550: Applied Probability.

The teaching material presented below may change from semester to semester.

SYLLABUS. HOMEWORK HANDOUTS

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Instructor: Professor Vladimir Rotar; Office BA-230, phone: 594 7244; e-mail: rotar@sciences.sdsu.edu or vrotar@euclid.ucsd.edu.

Text: Higgins, J.J. and Keller-McNulty, Concepts in probability and Stochastic Modeling, Duxburry Press, 1995.

Other References:

1. Ross, S. (1988), A First Course in Probability, 3rd edition, Macmillan.Davis
2. Vladimir Rotar, (1998), Probability Theory, World Scientific.
3. Larsen, R. J. and Marx, M. L. (1986), An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Its Applications, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall.

Examinations. There are many quizzes, and a final exam. Homework is assigned almost each class and will be collected and graded, as a rule, each week.

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The course deals with the basic ideas and methods of building probability models, and various examples of applications of those. In the course we will provide the foundation for statistical methods, as well as for some topics in Financial and Actuarial Mathematics.