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Class Schedule

Upcoming Week's Schedule

M 11/4

Grinstead and Snell 7

Gravner notes 8

More on Expectation and Variance of Sums of Random Variables

CLT

W 11/6

 

Markov Chains

F 11/8

Midterm 2 due at beginning of class

Markov Chains
M 11/11

 

Special Topics
W 11/13

Groups 

1,3, 5, 9, 10, 

Begin Group Presentations
F 11/15

2, 4, 6, 7, 8

Finish Group Presentations

 

Full Schedule

Day and Date Suggested Readings and Practice Problems  Notes and Announcements
M 9/16 G&S 1.2 

What is Probability?

T 9/17 (x-hour) Proof writing techniques 
W 9/18 G&S 3.1

Combinatorics

HW 1 assigned

Th 9/19
F 9/20 G&S 3.2 More combinatorics
M 9/23

Continue G&S Chapter 3

Chapter 3 & 4 of Gravner's notes

Axioms of Probability

 

T 9/24 (x-hour) Groups assigned for project
W 9/25

Conditional Probability

HW 1 due at beginning of class

HW 2 assigned

F 9/27 G&S Chapter 4  More Conditional Probability
M 9/30 

G&S Chapter 4 and 5 and back to 1.2

Gravner Notes Chapter 5

Independent and Dependent events
T 10/1

 

Project rubric 
W 10/2

 

Random Variables

HW 2 Due

HW 3 assigned

F 10/4

 

More RVs

M 10/7 

Gravner Notes Chapter 5

Grinstead and Snell 5.1

Expectation and Variance
T 10/8

 

Midterm 1
W 10/9

 

Common distributions and their properties

F 10/11

Gravner notes 5.3 

Inequalities

HW 3 due

HW 4 assigned

M 10/14

Gravner notes 5.5

Geometric Distribution

W 10/16

Grinstead and Snell Chapter 8

 

Markov's Inequality

Chebyshev's Inequality

F 10/18

Gravner notes 5.6 

 

Poisson Distribution

 

HW 4 due

HW 5 assigned

M 10/21

Gravner notes 6

Continuous Random Variables

M 10/23

 

More continuous RVs and common continuous distributions

F 10/25

 

More distributions

HW 5 due 

HW 6 Assigned

M 10/28

Grinstead and Snell 7

Gravner notes 8

Sums of Random Variables

M 10/30

 

Weak and Strong Law of Large Numbers

F 11/1

Central Limit Theorem

HW 6 due