• Offered by Rsch Sch of Finance, Actuarial Studies & App Stats
  • ANU College ANU College of Business and Economics
  • Course subject Statistics
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Boris Buchmann
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in Second Semester 2016
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This course introduces students to the theory of basic discrete and continuous time Markov processes and also Gaussian processes including Brownian motion and related processes.
 
Topics include: Review of random variable characterisations, including cumulative distribution functions, probability density and mass functions, moment generating functions, joint, marginal and conditional distributions and conditional expectations and variances; Markov chains, including state-space decomposition, first-step analysis and determination of stationary and steady state distributions; Markov jump process theory, including embedded Markov chains, homogeneous and inhomogeneous Poisson processes and birth and death processes; Gaussian processes, including Brownian motion, geometric Brownian motion, Brownian bridges, integrated Brownian motion and White Noise.
 

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Requisite and Incompatibility

You will need to contact the Rsch Sch of Finance, Actuarial Studies & App Stats to request a permission code to enrol in this course.

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Fees

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Student Contribution Band:
2
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2016 $3276
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2016 $4368
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Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
9573 18 Jul 2016 29 Jul 2016 31 Aug 2016 28 Oct 2016 In Person N/A

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