Date | Class Topic | Reading (Wackerly, Mendenhall and Scheaffer) |
---|---|---|
9/1 | Course Introduction | Chapter 1 |
9/3 | Descriptive statistics -- mean, SD | Chapter 1 |
9/6 | Descriptive statistics -- median, percentiles | Chapter 1 |
9/8 | Sample spaces, events, probabilities | 2.1 - 2.4 |
9/10 | Counting methods; Problem Set 1 due | 2.5-2.6 |
9/13 | More on counting methods | 2.6 |
9/15 | Conditional probabilities, independence | 2.7-2.8 |
9/17 | The event-composition method; Problem Set 2 due | 2.9 |
9/20 | Bayes' Rule | 2.10-2.13 |
9/22 | Discrete random variables | 3.1-3.2 |
9/24 | Expected value; Problem Set 3 due | 3.3 |
9/27 | Binomial and geometric random variables | 3.4 |
9/29 | More on binomial and geometric random variables | 3.5 |
10/1 | Hypergeometric random variables, etc.; Problem Set 4 due | 5.3 |
10/4 | Poisson processes | 3.8 |
10/6 | Moment generating functions | 3.9 |
10/8 | Exam 1 | Chapters 1, 2, 3 (through section 3.5) |
10/11,13,15 | Fall Break -- no class | 4.1-4.2 |
10/18 | Continuous random variables | 4.3 |
10/20 | Uniform and normal distributions | 4.4-4.5 |
10/22 | Spare day 1; Problem set 5 due | 4.6 |
10/25 | Exponential and Gamma distributions | 4.6 |
10/27 | Beta distributions | 4.7-4.8 |
10/29 | Moment generating functions for continuous random variables; Problem set 6 due | 4.9 |
11/1 | Tchebysheff's Theorem; begin joint distributions | 4.10, 5.1-5.2 |
11/3 | Multivariate distributions | 5.1-5.2 |
11/5 | Marginal and conditional distributions; Problem Set 7 due | 5.3 |
11/8 | Independence | 5.4 |
11/10 | Expected value of a function of random variables | 5.5-5.6 |
11/12 | The covariance matrix; Problem Set 8 due | 5.7 |
11/15 | Linear combinations of random variables | 5.8 |
11/17 | Spare day 2 | 6.1-6.3 |
11/19 | Exam 2 | Material through class on 11/12 |
11/22 | Functions of random variables | 6.1-6.3 |
11/24,26 | Thanksgiving Break -- no class | 6.5 |
11/29 | Method of distribution functions | 6.5 |
12/1 | Method of moment generating functions | 6.5 |
12/3 | More on method of moment generating functions; Problem Set 9 due | 6.5 |
12/6 | Central Limit Theorem, begin | 7.3 |
12/8 | Central Limit Theorem -- proof | 7.4 |
12/10 | Semester wrap-up; Problem Set 10 due | 7.4 |