Applied Stochastic Differential Equations

With this hands-on introduction readers will learn what SDEs are all about and how they should use them in practice.

1. Introduction; 2. Some background on ordinary differential equations; 3. Pragmatic introduction to stochastic differential equations; 4. Ito calculus and stochastic differential equations; 5. Probability distributions and statistics of SDEs; 6. Statistics of linear stochastic differential equations; 7. Useful theorems and formulas for SDEs; 8. Numerical simulation of SDEs; 9. Approximation of nonlinear SDEs; 10. Filtering and smoothing theory; 11. Parameter estimation in SDE models; 12. Stochastic differential equations in machine learning; 13. Epilogue.