Apr 25, 2025  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

EAS 502LEC - Introduction to Probability Theory for Data Science


This course provides basic background on probability theory at a beginning graduate level. Topics include introductory probability concepts, discrete and continuous random variables and probability distributions, joint and conditional probability distributions, Bayes theorem and its applications, random sampling and data description, point estimation of parameters, discrete and continuous transforms and random incidence. If time permits the course introduces elementary stochastic processes including Bernoulli and Poisson processes.

Credits: 3