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 Biostatistics 140.671
 Introduction to Probability Theory I 

  Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

LECTURER: 

Charles Rohde, PhD
Department of Biostatistics, Hygiene E3132A
Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygiene and Public Health 
phone:   410-955-3539
fax:        410-955-0958
Office Hours: TBA

LECTURES:

3:00 AM - 4:20 PM

Tuesday, Thursday

W2017

LABS for review, questions, and help with the problem sets:

Lab 1:	Tuesday	1:30 - 2:30 PM	W3204
Lab 2:	Wednesday	3:00 - 4:00 PM	W3204

TEACHING ASSISTANT:

• Jing Ying jning@jhsph.edu

WEB SITE:

• http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~crohde/

• Contains course schedule, office hours, lecture notes, problem sets, and solution keys.
  

TEXTBOOK:

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COMPUTING:

• R or STATA as needed.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

These courses introduce probability theory, including basic concepts in measure theory and probability; random variables and their distributions; moments of random variables and probability inequalities; moment-generating and characteristic functions; convergence concepts and limit theorems; transformation and order statistics. Student evaluation is based on homework and one exam per term.