Introduction to Stochastic Processes - Lecture Notes

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Introduction to Stochastic Processes - Lecture Notes (with 33 illustrations)Gordan itkovi Department of MathematicsThe University of Texas at AustinContents1 Probability random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Countable sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Discrete random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Events and probability.

a random variable can be thought of as an uncertain, numerical (i.e., with values in R) quantity. While it is true that we do not know with certainty what value a random variable Xwill take, we usually know how to compute the probability that its value will be in some some subset of R.

  Random, Stochastic