Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability
As taught in: Spring 2005
Two Dice. (Image courtesy of National Parks Service Museums.)
Instructors:
Prof. Dimitri Bertsekas
(Contributor)
Prof. John Tsitsiklis
Prof. Muriel Médard
MIT Course Number:
6.041 / 6.431
Level:
Course Features
Course Highlights
This course features a full set of lecture notes and detailed problem sets in the assignments section, in addition to quizzes and other materials used by students in the course. The materials are largely based on the textbook, Introduction to Probability, written by Professors John Tsitsiklis and Dimitri Bertsekas.
Course Description
This course is offered both to undergraduates (6.041) and graduates (6.431), but the assignments differ. 6.041/6.431 introduces students to the modeling, quantification, and analysis of uncertainty. Topics covered include: formulation and solution in sample space, random variables, transform techniques, simple random processes and their probability distributions, Markov processes, limit theorems, and elements of statistical inference.
