A discrete distribution is a probability distribution that depicts the occurrence of discrete (individually countable) outcomes, such as 1, 2, 3, yes, no, true, or false.

Discrete Probability Distributions in the textbook: 5.1 The Probability Distribution for a Discrete Variable (pp. 186-188) ... An example and details of calculating the expectation and the variance (+ ...

Topics include: the first and second moment methods, martingales, concentration inequalities, branching processes, percolation, and Markov chains. Examples will be drawn from random structure and ...

This is a graduate-level course focused on techniques and models in modern discrete probability. Topics include: the first and second moment methods, Chernoff bounds and large deviations, martingales, ...