Introduction to Probability
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Schedule

Week Date Chapter Topic Key Info Slides QMD Slides PDF Slides Notes Exit tix Record-ing Muddy Points
1 9/30 Welcome
1 Outcomes, Events, and Sample Space
10/2 2 Probability
10/3 HW 0 due 11pm
2 10/7 22 Introduction to Counting
3 Independent Events
10/9 4 Conditional Probability
5 Bayes Theorem
10/10 HW 1 due 11pm
3 10/14 7 Random Variables
8 pmfs and CDFs
10/16 14-20 Some Important Discrete RVs
10/17 HW 2 due 11 pm
4 10/21 9 Independence and Conditioning (Joint Distributions)
10/23 Class canceled
10/24 HW 3 due 11 pm
10/27 HW 2 solutions due 11pm
5 10/28 10 Expected Values of discrete RVs
11 Expected Values of sums of discrete RVs
10/30 12 Variance of discrete RVs
11/3 HW 4 due 11 pm
11/3 HW 3 solutions due 11pm
6 11/4 pre-24 Calculus Review
11/6 24 Continuous RVs and PDFs
11/7 HW 5 due 11 pm
11/10 HW 4 solutions due 11pm
7 11/11 28 Expected value of continuous RVs
29 Variance of continuous RVs
11/12 HW 3 videos due 11pm, if meeting with Nicky, schedule for some time this week
11/13 31-35 Some Important Continuous RVs
11/14 HW 6 due 11 pm
11/17 HW 5 solutions due 11pm
8 11/18 Class canceled, Nicky sick
11/20 25 Joint Densities1
11/21 HW 7 due 11 pm
11/24 HW 6 solutions due 11pm
9 11/25 26 Independent continuous RVs2
27 Conditional distributions3
28-29 Expected values and variance revisited4
11/27 No class
12/1 HW 7 solutions due 11pm
10 12/2 36 Sums of independent normal RVs
37 Central limit theorem
12/4 43 Moment generating functions
12/5 HW 8 due 11 pm
12/8 HW 7 presentations due 11pm (with meetings 12/9-12/11)
11 12/9 No class!!
12/12 Optional HW 9 due 11 pm
12/13 HW 8 solutions due 11pm

Footnotes

  1. Here’s a link to Meike’s recordings for certain problems that I said to do at home.↩︎

  2. Here’s a link to Meike’s recordings for certain problems that I said to do at home.↩︎

  3. Here’s a link to Meike’s recordings for certain problems that I said to do at home.↩︎

  4. Here’s a link to Meike’s recordings for certain problems that I said to do at home.↩︎