STA230/MTH230: Probability

Text:Jim Pitman, Probability
Note: Please consult the 230 home page for further information about the course. If Chapter ("Ch") column is green or blue, click on it for brief lecture notes about that week's classes. Homework solutions are not available for textbook problems (for copyright reasons). Both Midterm Exams and Final Exam will be available online (along with histograms of class performance) once they have been graded. This syllabus was last revised , and may be superceded by later versions (refresh your browser for current version).

Syllabus, Fall 2013

ChWeekTopicsAssignments
1.Aug 27-29 Outcomes & Events HW 1 (Due Sep 5)
1.Sep 03-05 Conditional Probability (D/A ends Sep 6) HW 2 (Due Sep 12)     (MH)
2.Sep 10-12 Binomial, Normal & Poisson HW 3 (Due Sep 19)
2.Sep 17-19 Geometric & Hypergeometric, μ & σ2 HW 4 (Due Sep 26)
3.Sep 24-26 Discrete RVs: Exp'n of Fns, Cond'l Dist's HW 5 (Due Tue Oct 1)
1-3Oct 01, 03 Review, 1st Midterm (Oct 3) PDF sheet (Hists of midterm, course avgs)
3.Oct 08-10 Poi, LLN & CLT for Disc RVs HW 6 (Due Oct 24)
--- Fall Break Oct 12-15 --- (Midterm grades reported Oct 11)
4.Oct 17 Density Functions, CDFs, & survey
4.Oct 22-24 Change of Variable, Hazard & Survival HW 7 (Due Oct 31)
5.Oct 29-31 Independence & Joint Distributions HW 8 (Due Nov 07)
5.Nov 05-07 Functions of Random Vectors HW 9 (Due Nov 14)
1-5Nov 12, 14 Review, 2nd Midterm (Nov 14) (Hists of midterm, course avgs)
6.Nov 19-21 Conditional Distributions HW 10 (Due Tue Nov 26)
6.Nov 26 Extreme values HW 11 (Due Dec 05)
--- Thanksgiving Recess Nov 27 - Nov 02 --- (TG is Thu Nov 28)
6.Dec 3 - 5 Conditional Expectations, Review for Final CE Instructions
1-6Dec 13 Cumulative Final Exam (Fri 9am-12n) (Hists of exam scores, course avgs)