Module MA4020-KP07

Stochastics 2 (Stoch2KP07)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

7

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Bachelor CLS 2023, compulsory, mathematics

Classes and lectures:

  • Stochastics 2 (exercise, 2 SWS)
  • Stochastics 2 (lecture, 3 SWS)

Workload:

  • 20 hours exam preparation
  • 75 hours in-classroom work
  • 115 hours private studies and exercises

Contents of teaching:

  • Lebesgue integral und Riemann integral
  • transformations of measures and integrals
  • product measures and Fubini's theorem
  • moments and dependency measures
  • normally distributed random vectors and distributions closely related to the normal distribution
  • characteristic functions
  • conditional expectations
  • basis ideas of information theory

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • Studends get insights into basic stochastic structures
  • They master techniques of integration being relevant to stochastics
  • They master the treatment of (particularly normally distributed) random vectors and their distributions
  • They acquire a basic understanding of information theory approaches
  • They are able to formalize complex stochastic problems

Grading through:

  • Exercises
  • written exam

Literature:

  • J. Elstrodt : Maß- und Integrationstheorie Springer
  • M. Fisz : Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und mathematische Statistik Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften

Language:

  • offered only in German

Notes:

Admission requirememnts for taking the module:
- None (The competencies of the modules listed under 'Requires' are needed for this module, but are not a formal prerequisite)

Admission requirements for participation in module examination(s):
- Successful completion of homework assignments during the semester

Module exam(s):
- MA4020-L1: Stochastics 2, written exam, 90 min, 100 % of module grade

The lecture is identical to the one in module MA4020.

Last Updated:

22.02.2022