Introduction to Probability Models
This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts, methods, and models of applied probability and stochastic processes. The course is application oriented and focuses on the development of probabilistic thinking and an intuitive feel for the subject rather than on a more traditional formal approach based on measure theory. The main goal is to equip science and engineering students with necessary probabilistic tools they can apply in future studies and research. Topics covered include sample spaces, probabilities of events, random variables, expectation, variance, correlation, joint and marginal distributions, independence, moment generating functions, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, Monte Carlo method, conditional distributions, conditional expectation and variance, random vectors and matrices, random graphs, Wiener filters, Gaussian vectors, stochastic processes, Poisson process, Brownian motion, stationary processes, correlation function, and power spectral density.