6 ECTS credits
180 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1015199BNR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Students must have followed 'Discrete Mathematics’, before they can enroll for ‘Probability Theory’.
Enrolling in ‘Probability Theory’ means also that you simultaneously follow 'Analysis and Topology in Metric Spaces' or have successfully passed ‘Analysis and Topology in Metric Spaces’.
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences
- Department
- Mathematics
- Educational team
- Uwe Einmahl
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 26 contact hours Lecture
26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
- 1. Probability spaces
2. Random variables and distributions
3. Random vectors and distributions
4. Expectation
5. Some important limit theorems
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Kanstheorie, Syllabus
Handbook (Recommended) : A first course in probability, Ross, BIB
Handbook (Recommended) : Stochastics, Georgii, BIB
- Additional info
none
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competencies
The student knows important concepts of probability.
The student can solve exercises in this area
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Examen
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
The final examination consists of two parts:
1. exercises (50%)
2. theory (50%)
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Mathematics and Data Science: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)