A random variable that can take only a certain specified set of individual possible values-for example, the positive integers 1, 2, 3, . . . For example, stock prices are discrete random variables, ...

Introduction to probability theory and its applications. Axioms of probability, distributions, discrete and continuous random variables, conditional and joint distributions, correlation, limit laws, ...

This unit introduces the basic ideas and methods of Probability. Some familiarity with calculus is needed. Probability is an everyday concept of which most people have only a vague intuitive ...