Probability (2023/2024)

Codice insegnamento
4S003795
Docente
Marco Minozzo
Coordinatore
Marco Minozzo
crediti
7,5
Settore disciplinare
SECS-S/01 - STATISTICA
Lingua di erogazione
Italiano
Sede
VERONA
Periodo
Anno accademico 2023/2024 Dottorato di Ricerca dal 1-ott-2023 al 30-set-2024.

Orario lezioni

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Obiettivi formativi

The course is intended for 1st year students on PhD in Economics and Finance.
The purposes of this course are: (i) to explain, at an intermediate level, the basis of probability theory and some of its more relevant theoretical features; (ii) to explore those aspects of the theory most used in advanced analytical models in economics and finance. The topics will be illustrated and explained through many examples.

Programma

Course content
1. Algebras and sigma-algebras, axiomatic definition of probability, probability spaces, properties of probability, conditional probability, Bayes theorem, stochastic independence for events.
2. Random variables, measurability, cumulative distribution functions and density functions.
3. Transformations of random variables, probability integral transform.
4. Lebesgue integral, expectation and variance of random variables, Markov inequality, Tchebycheff inequality, Jensen inequality, moments and moment generating function.
5. Multidimensional random variables, joint distributions, marginal and conditional distributions, stochastic independence for random variables, covariance and correlation, Cauchy-Schwartz inequality.
6. Bivariate normal distribution, moments, marginal and conditional densities.
7. Transformations of multidimensional random variables.
8. Convergence of sequences of random variables, weak law of large numbers and central limit theorem.
Textbook
S. Ross (2010). A First Course in Probability, 8th Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall.
Further readings
G. Casella, R. L. Berger (2002). Statistical Inference, Second edition. Duxbury Thompson Learning.
R. Durrett (2009). Elementary Probability for Applications. Cambridge University Press.
M. J. Evans, J. S. Rosenthal (2003). Probability and Statistics - The Science of Uncertainty. W. H. Freeman and Co.
G. Grimmett, D. Stirzaker (2001). Probability and Random Processes. Oxford University Press.
A. M. Mood, F. A. Graybill, D. C. Boes (1974). Introduction to the Theory of Statistics. McGraw-Hill.
P. Newbold, W. Carlson, B. Thorne (2012). Statistics for Business and Economics. Pearson Higher Education.
D. Stirzaker (2003). Elementary Probability. Cambridge University Press.
L. Wasserman (2004). All of Statistics. Springer.
Advanced readings
R. B. Ash, C. A. Doléans-Dade (2000). Probability and Measure Theory. Harcourt/Academic Press.
M. J. Schervish (1995). Theory of Statistics. Springer.

Testi di riferimento

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Modalità d'esame

A two-hour written paper at the end of the course. No material is permitted during the examination.

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