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Probability I
BST 230

Jointly Offered with: Faculty of Arts & Sciences as BIOSTAT 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 Note: lab or section times to be announced at first meeting; cross-listed: Harvard Chan Students must register for the Harvard Chan course.

School Harvard Chan School
Credits 5
Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Department Biostatistics
Course Component Lecture
Instruction Mode In Person
Grading Basis HSPH Student Option (Audit, Ordinal, Pass/Fail)
Course Requirements You must be a Biostatistics PhD student or have taken BST222 to register for this course. If you have taken BST222 and are not a Biostatistics PhD student, please ask the instructor for an instructor override.