MATH407-14S2 (C) Semester Two 2014

Special Topic

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 25 July 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 10 October 2014

Description

Special Topic

Stochastic processes, in other words process that contain some randomness, are all around us: the price of petrol; a gambler at the casino; a supermarket checkout queue; the weather; world population growth; evolution. This course will look at a variety of stochastic processes and ways in which these can be used to describe the real world. Courses that may be useful include MATH302, MATH363, STAT211.

Topics to be chosen from: Poisson processes; birthdeath processes; coalescent and branching processes; random walks; gambler’s ruin; first hitting times; Markov chains; queuing theory; martingales.


For a full list of 2014 Honours courses, please refer to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics Honours Booklet Mathematics and Statistics Honours Booklet

Course Coordinators

Michael Plank and Mike Steel

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignments 40%
Final Examination 60%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $853.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mathematics and Statistics .

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