MATH 339(b) Probability and Stochastic Processes
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Last listed
- 1974–75
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1974–75 to 1974–75 (before that, 1963–64 to 1973–74 used the number for Electromagnetism I and (a)); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Discrete probability models. Random walks. Introduction to theory of Markov chains. Applications to biological and social processes. 3 hours lectures, Winter term Prerequisite: One of M223, M233 or M243 Parts (a) and (b) may be taken in either order
As printed in the 1974–75 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1974–75, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1974–75 1 calendar
Discrete probability models. Random walks. Introduction to theory of Markov chains. Applications to biological and social processes. 3 hours lectures, Winter term Prerequisite: One of M223, M233 or M243
Parts (a) and (b) may be taken in either order
1972–73 to 1973–74 2 calendars
Titled (a).
Probability distributions, joint variation, central limit theorem. Introduction to continuous time stochastic processes. Poisson process and application to simple congestion situations. 3 hours lectures, Fall or Spring term. Prerequisite: M 243.
Not in the 1968–69 to 1971–72 calendars.
1963–64 to 1967–68 5 calendars
Another title: Electromagnetism I, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Electrostatics and magnetostatics. The theorem of Gauss. Development of the Maxwell equations. 2 lectures.