BIOS 8361: Advanced Probability and Stochastic Processes

Graduate course, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Biostatistics, 2025

Course description

Fall 2025

This course (formerly BIOS 7361) is the first in a two-course series on advanced probability and statistical inference. Topics include but not limited to

  • Characteristic functions
  • Modes of convergence
  • Limit theorems
  • Martingales
  • Markov chains
  • Branching processes
  • Random networks