Continuous Variable: can take on any value between two specified values. Obtained by measuring. Covariance: a measure of the direction of the linear relationship between two variables. Discrete ...

This is a graduate-level course focused on techniques and models in modern discrete probability. Topics include: the first and second moment methods, Chernoff bounds and large deviations, martingales, ...

This is a graduate-level course focused on techniques and models in modern discrete probability. Topics include: the first and second moment methods, martingales, concentration inequalities, branching ...

Cacoullos and Papageorgiou (1982, in Statistics and Probability: Essays in Honor of C. R. Rao, G. Kallianpur et al. (eds), 155-168; Amsterdam: North-Holland) introduced and studied a three-parameter ...