Department of Economics
College of Liberal Arts

 Mathematics

Prerequisites 

For

Economics

Majors

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Probability

Basics of  Probability Theory

Kolmogorov's Axioms

Baye's Theorem

Independence

Random Variables

Distribution Functions

Random Variables Being Identically Distributed

Probability Mass Functions and Probability Density Functions 

 Differentiation

Review of Derivatives

 Optimization

                                Optimization Definitions

                                Optimization Without Constraints

                                Optimization With Constraints

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