Course materials

Weak I: Axiomatic definition of probability

  1. Video Lectures:

Lecture I (review of probability) Notes used in lecture, handwritten notes

Lecture II (Axiomatic definition of probability) Notes used in lecture, handwritten notes

Lecture III(sigma fields and construction of probabilities on them) Notes used in lecture, handwritten notes

Weak II (Properties of sigma-field and probability)

Lecture IV (properties of probability) notes used in lecture handwritten notes

Reference: Rohatgi and Saleh

Tutorial on August 04, 2020: discussion notes

Lecture V (Conditional probability and independence) notes used in the lecture handwritten notes

List of exercises.


Week III (Introduction to random variables)

Tutorial on August 11

Lecture~6.0 (Preliminaries for the random variable) notes used in the lecture

Lecture~6 (Random variables) notes used in the lecture handwritten notes

Lecture~7 (Distribution function and its properties) notes used in the lecture handwritten notes

Please try to solve the exercises mentioned in the handwritten notes.

Week IV (Discrete and Continuous random variables and their properties)

Tutorial on August 18

Video lecture~8 (Discrete and continuous random variables) notes used in the lecture handwritten notes

Exercises (Please solve the exercises)

Video lecture~9 (Functions of random variables Part I) notes used in the lecture handwritten notes

Exercises (Please solve the exercises)

Special random variables with their p.m.f./p.d.f.

Week V (Moments, Quantiles and Generating Functions)

Tutorial on August 25

Video lecture 10: Functions of random variables: part II Notes used in the video lecture Handwritten lecture notes

Video lecture 10 (a): A complex example Notes used in the video lecture

Quiz 1: Question paper

Week VI (Quantiles and generating functions)

Lecture 11: introduction to quantiles and moments Notes used in video lecture handwritten lecture notes

Lecture 12: Formal introduction to moments Notes used in video lecture handwritten lecture notes

Exercises on Moments, quantiles and generating functions


Week VII (Moments and tail probabilities)


Lecture 13: Moment inequalities Notes used in the video lecture

Tutorial on 8th September (morning)

Tutorial on 8th September (evening)


Week VIII (Generating functions)

Lecture 14 Generating functions Lecture notes for video lecture

Lecture 15 Generating functions and moments Lecture notes for video lecture

Handwritten lecture notes

Exercises on Moments and generating functions

Analytic exposition to generating functions for non-negative discrete random variables Lecture notes

Tutorial on 24th September Board work

Week IX (Classification of random vectors: joint, marginal and conditional distribution)

Video lecture 16: Introduction to random vectors Notes for the video lecture handwritten notes

Video lecture 17: marginal distributions, mass and density functions Notes for the video lecture handwritten notes

Video lecture 18: marginal distributions, mass and density functions: general framework Notes for video lecture

Video lecture 19: Conditional distributions part 1 Notes for the video lecture handwritten notes

Video lecture 20: conditional distributions and expectations part II Notes in video lecture

handwritten notes

Exercises

Tutorial notes

Week X (Independent random vectors and their functions)


Video lecture 21: Independent random variables and vectors notes used in video lecture handwritten notes


Video lecture 22 Lecture notes used in the video


Video lecture 23 Lecture notes used in the video Exercises for independent random variables and their moments


Lecture notes for Video lecture 24 : Moments of random vectors and functions of several random variables (Unfortunately there is no recording)


Video lecture 25: Functions of random vectors Notes for the video lecture handwritten notes

Video lecture 26: Functions of random vectors part II Notes for the video lecture

Exercises for functions of several random variables


Notes for the tutorial on October 27


Video lecture: Some exercises on moments of random vectors Notes used in the video lecture


Video lecture: Problem-solving session on functions of several random variables: part I Notes used in the lecture


Video lecture: Problem-solving session on functions of several random variables: part II Notes used in the lecture



Week XII (Convergence concepts I)

Video lecture on Convergence concepts of random variables Part I

Video lecture on Convergence concepts of random variables Part II

Video lecture on convergence concepts of random variables Part III


Notes used in the video lecture



Week XIII

Lecture video on Kolmogorov's consistency theorem and its consequences

Lecture notes

Lecture video on the abstract construction of the random variables Notes used in the lecture

Video lecture asymptotics for the sum of IID Bernoulli random variables

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V (Sum of independently (but not identically) distributed random variables)

Notes used in the lectures (Handwritten notes)

Probability inequalities based on moments (no video lectures as the handwritten notes are self-sufficient and we discussed them in detail for SLLN) handwritten notes

Probability Inequalities II handwritten notes Video lecture I Video lecture II

Lecture notes used in the video

Revisiting the definitions of convergences Handwritten lecture notes

Video lecture I Video lecture II

Lecture notes used in the video

Convergence concepts II

Handwritten notes

Video lecture I