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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

MAT 661 - Probability Theory


Credits 3

This course is crosslisted with MATH 461. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

The 600-level MAT and STA courses that are normally available for graduate credit are those numbered 650 or higher; the exceptions are MAT 680, which may be counted for graduate credit in an education degree program, and STA 691, STA 693, and STA 695, which may be counted for graduate credit in a biological sciences program.

Fundamental concepts of probability; random variables, binomial, Poisson, normal, chi-square, T, F and other distributions; transformations of random variables; conditional and marginal distributions; central limit theorem and concepts associated with the field of statistics.



Prerequisites
Graduate standing.