Probability theory

cosmos 7th January 2018 at 4:37pm
Mathematics Measure theory Statistics

Probability Theory Wiki article. Mathematica foundations of probability

Probability cheat sheetwebpage

–> Seeing theory -- a visual introduction to probability and statistics

Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic ProcessesProbability Primer

http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs242/lectures/

Probability space (wiki), based on Measure theory

Random variables

Basic results in probability theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_boundhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%27s_inequality


Probability distribution function

Discrete probability distributions

Continuous probability distributions

Joint probability distribution

Moments and cumulants

Generating functions

Central Limit Theorem

Transformation of random variables

Can be used for sampling from distributions given a uniform sampler!

Monte Carlo

Probabilistic Numerical methods for finding numerical answers to main questions in probability and elsewhere.

Accuracy, found by using the Standard error (see Statistical estimation!).


Combinatorics

Probabilistic method (see book)

Information theory

Information measures, like Entropy, Relative entropy, Mutual information


Baye's theorem, Bayesian statistics