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Stochastic Processes - MATH5835
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Mathematics and Statistics
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course introduces some of the basic ideas and tools of the theory of stochastic processes and their applications to modelling in finance and biology. It covers measure theory, conditional expectation, martingales, continuous time martingales, Brownian motion, semimartingales, fractional Brownian motion; discrete time Markov processes and compounding stochastic processes; homogeneous Poisson processes, compound Poisson processes and non-homogeneous Poisson processes.

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