Computing

This is mainly a theory course, however it will sometimes be instructive to use computer simulations to get a better feel for what is going on mathematically. Occasional homework problems will require you to do simple simulations. You may use any language that you are familiar with to do these. I would recommend using a high-level language with well-developed prob/stat libraries, like R, Python, or MATLAB/Octave. I will provide reference material for R, as a default choice. In any case, you will not need to write sophisticated programs; scripts of at the very most a few tens of lines will suffice.