| Week | Date | Topics | Reading | Slides | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 0 | Fri, 1/10/14 | Intro, Set Theory, Boolean Algebra | Pitman Ch. 1.1 to 1.3 | Lecture 0 | ||
| Week 1 | Wed, 1/15/14 | Basic Probability | Lecture 1 | |||
| Fri, 1/17/14 | More Conditional Probability | Pitman Ch. 1.4 - 1.6 | Lecture 2 | |||
| Week 2 | Wed, 1/22/14 | Binomial Distribution | Pitman Ch. 2.1 - 2.3 | Lecture 3 | HW1 due in class | |
| Fri, 1/24/14 | Normal Distribution, Normal appoximation to the Binomial | Lecture 4 | ||||
| Week 3 | Wed, 1/29/14 | Class canceled | ||||
| Fri, 1/31/14 | Poisson, Hypergeometric, and Geometric distributions | Pitman Ch. 2.4, 2.5, 3.2 | Lecture 5 | HW2 due in class | ||
| Week 4 | Wed, 2/05/14 | Random Variables | Pitman Ch. 3.1 - 3.3 | Lecture 6 | HW3 due in class | |
| Fri, 2/07/14 | Joint Distributions Markov's and Chebyshev's Inequalities |
Pitman Ch. 3.4 - 3.6 | Lecture 7 | |||
| Week 5 | Wed, 2/12/14 | LLN and CLT, Moments | Pitman Ch. 3.4 - 3.6 DeGroot 4.4 |
Lecture 8 | HW4 due in class | |
| Fri, 2/14/14 | Class canceled | |||||
| Week 6 | Wed, 2/19/14 | Lecture 9 | HW5 due in class | |||
| Fri, 2/21/14 | Midterm 1 | |||||
| Week 7 | Wed, 2/26/14 | CLT, CDFs, Exponential Distribution | Pitman 4.1, 4.2, 4.5 | Lecture 10 | ||
| Fri, 2/28/14 | Gamma Distribution | Lecture 11 | ||||
| Week 8 | Wed, 3/05/14 | Hazard and Change of Variables | Pitman 4.3, 4.4 | Lecture 12 | HW6 due in class | |
| Fri, 3/07/14 | Order Statistics | Pitman 4.6 | Lecture 13 | |||
| Week 9 | Wed, 3/10/14 | No lecture - Spring Recess | ||||
| Fri, 3/12/14 | ||||||
| Week 10 | Wed, 3/19/14 | Continuous Joint Distributions | Pitman 5.1, 5.2 | Lecture 14 | HW7 due in class | |
| Fri, 3/21/14 | Lecture 15 | |||||
| Week 11 | Wed, 3/26/14 | Review | Lecture 16 | HW8 due in class | ||
| Fri, 3/28/14 | Midterm 2 | |||||
| Week 12 | Wed, 4/02/14 | Bivariate Normal Distribution | Pitman 5.3 | Lecture 17 | ||
| Fri, 4/04/14 | Operations | Pitman 5.4 | Lecture 18 | |||
| Week 13 | Wed, 4/09/14 | Conditional Distributions | Pitman 6.3 | Lecture 19 | HW9 due in class | |
| Fri, 4/11/14 | Covariance / Correlation & General Bivariate Normal | Pitman 6.4, 6.5 | Lecture 20 | |||
| Week 14 | Wed, 4/16/14 | Bayesian Inference | DeGroot 7.2,7.3 | Lecture 21 | HW10 due in class | |
| Fri, 4/18/14 | Maximum Likelihood Estimators | DeGroot 7.5 | Lecture 22 | |||
| Week 15 | Wed, 4/23/14 | Review | HW11 due in class | |||
| Final | Wed, 4/30/14 | Final Exam from 2 pm - 5 pm | ||||