MATH435-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Probability Theory

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Probability Theory

This course gives an introduction to the ideas and methods of probability, covering a selection of the following topics:
• Fundamentals of probability
• Discrete and continuous random variables
• How to analyse populations, contagious processes and extinction events with birth-death processes and branching processes
• How to model systems under the influence of chance using Random walks, Markov chains, Poisson processes and Queuing processes

Learning Outcomes

After this course, you will understand how probability theory is used in a variety of contexts in, e.g., engineering, biology, physics, machine learning, and economics.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School.

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 14:00 - 15:00 Elsie Locke 104A
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 13:00 - 14:00 Rehua 101 Lectorial
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 12:00 - 13:00 Jack Erskine 239
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,138.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mathematics and Statistics .

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