[See also the evolving lecture notes.]STA 447/2006S is a course about random (stochastic) processes, designed for graduate and fourth-year undergraduate students in statistics and related disciplines.
Instructor:
Professor Jeffrey S. Rosenthal,
Department of Statistics, University of Toronto.
Sidney Smith Hall, room 5016B; phone (416) 978-4594;
http://probability.ca/jeff/;
Time: Thursdays, 6:10 - 9:00 p.m. First class Jan 12. Last class Apr 5. No class Feb 23 (Reading Week).
Location: Room 1073 of Sidney Smith Hall (building "SS" on campus map).
Final exam: Thursday Apr 12, 7-10 p.m., Room 200, Brennan Hall, St. Michael's College, 81 St. Mary Street, 2nd floor. (Building "BR" on campus map.)
Course Web Page: Visit www.probability.ca/sta447 for course information and announcements.
Textbook: There is no required textbook. The instructor will post his point-form lecture notes on this course web page.
Further Reading: The following books may be useful for further reading, and will be held on reserve in the Mathematical Sciences Library:
Tentative list of topics to be covered: Markov chains in discrete and continuous time, martingales, Poisson processes, renewal theory, and Brownian motion, with applications (as time permits) to queueing networks, option pricing, population models, and more.
Prerequisite: STA 347H.
Evaluation:
Homework #1, 12% (assigned by Jan 26, due Feb 9);
Midterm test [sols],
20% (one hour, at 6:10 pm on Feb 16, in U.C. room 266
[East Hall]);
Homework #2, 12% (assigned by Mar 1, due Mar 15);
Homework #3, 12% (assigned by Mar 22, due Apr 5);
Final Exam, 44% (Thursday Apr 12, 7-10 p.m., Room 200, Brennan
Hall, St. Michael's College, 81 St. Mary Street, 2nd floor).
Lateness policy: Homeworks are due at 6:10pm sharp. Lateness penalties are: 1-10 mins = 1 point; 11-30 mins = 2 points; 31 mins - 24 hours = 10% of total points; longer = (10% of total points) x (number of days late, rounded UP).
Regrading policy: Regrading requests should only be made for genuine grading errors, and should be initiated by writing or typing a complete explanation of your concern (together with your full name, student number, e-mail address, and telephone number) on a separate piece of paper, and giving this together with your original unaltered homework/test paper to the instructor within one week of when the graded homework or test was first available. Warning: your mark may end up going down rather than up. Further details are available here.