Semester II, Academic Year 2021–2022
Probability Notes
[MTL106: Probability & Stochastic Processes]
Rameshwar Sao
(Last updated: May 5, 2022)
1 General
1. These are the set of notes I prepared for MTL106 during Semester II, 2021-22.
I will be happy if someone finds it useful.
2. Some examples are partially solved or not solved.
3. This document contains hyperlink and urls.
2 Table of Contents
The following topics are same as listed on Prof. Dharmaraja’s Webpage.
1. Topic 1: Axioms of probability, Probability space, Conditional probability,
Independence, Baye’s rule (Page 2 - Page 4)
2. Topic 2: Random variable, Some common discrete and continuous distribu-
tions (Page 5 - Page 11)
3. Topic 3: Distribution of Functions of Random Variable, Moments, Generating
functions (Page 12 - Page 15)
4. Topic 4: Two and higher dimensional distributions (Page 16 - Page 17)
5. Topic 5: Functions of random variables, Order statistics, Conditional distri-
butions, Covariance, correlation coefficient, conditional expectation (Page 18
- Page 26)
6. Topic 6: Modes of convergences, Law of large numbers, Central limit theorem
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