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Probability I
BIOSTAT 230

Jointly Offered with: Harvard Chan School as BST 230

Course Information

Description

Axiomatic foundations of probability, independence, conditional probability, joint distributions, transformations, moment generating functions, characteristic functions, moment inequalities, sampling distributions, modes of convergence and their interrelationships, laws of large numbers, central limit theorem, and stochastic processes.

Course Notes

Offered jointly with the School of Public Health as BST230.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Department Biostatistics
Course Component Lecture
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
Exam/Final Deadline Dec. 19, 2026
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Science & Engineering & Applied Science
Course Level Primarily for Graduate Students