Aims of the course: the formation of students basic mathematical knowledge for solving theoretical and practical problems in the professional activity of competent specialists’ in a financial and business sphere, skills of analytical thinking and skills of using mathematical knowledge for the formation of real business processes and developments, and for solving economic problems.
Prerequisites: prerequisites are absent.
Language(s): English.
After successful study of the course, the student will be able to:
- understand the notion of probability theory, random, persistent and impossible events; methods for calculating the probability of the occurrence of the value;
- calculate a probability of an elementary random event using classical and geometrical definitions of probability and use results in business processes;
- use a concept of theory of random processes and probability theory for modeling of economic processes;
- estimate basic numerical characteristics of a random variable using results of an investigation of a sample;
- understand possibilities and a restriction of using instruments of mathematical statistics during solving of real economic problems.