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Paper 2: Probability

This Paper 2 course is taken by Part IA Computer Science Tripos students only.

Lecturer: Dr R.J. Gibbens

No. of lectures: 6

This course is a prerequisite for the Part IB course Mathematical Methods for Computer Science, and the following Part II courses: Artificial Intelligence II, Computer Systems Modelling, Information Theory and Coding, Computer Vision, Digital Signal Processing, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.

Aims

The main aim of this course is to provide a foundation course in Probability with particular emphasis to further applications in Computer Science.

Lectures

Objectives

At the end of the course students should

Recommended reading

* Grimmett, G. & Welsh, D. (1986). Probability: an introduction. Oxford University Press.



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