Thoughts on Advanced Linear Algebra

[asianeconomist]

I'd definitely advise you to take Probability theory. What's being covered in Advanced Linear Algebra would hardly be used in grad level Econometrics.

[treblekicker]

Originally Posted by Macromatica

STAT 4203*
Mathematical Statistics I
Prerequisite(s): MATH 2163 (Calculus III). Introduction to probability theory for students who are not graduate majors in statistics or mathematics. Probability, dependence and independence, random variables, univariate distributions, multivariate distributions, moments, functions of random variables, moment generating functions.

and

STAT 5123*
Probability Theory
Prerequisite(s): MATH 2163 (Calc III) and one other course in MATH that has either 2144 (Calc I) or 2153 (Calc II) as a prerequisite. Basic probability theory, random events, dependence and independence, random variables, moments, distributions of functions of random variables, weak laws of large numbers, central limit theorems.

These descriptions are directly out of our course catalog. They sound similar to me. What are thoughts on this, and my current fall schedule (above). I appreciate your time.

The only apparent difference between those two courses (from their descriptions) is that math stats covers multivariate distributions and prob theory covers limit thrms. That being said, if you are very comfortable with functions in Rn and matrices, I'd go with Probability Theory.