Math 20: Discrete Probability

Last updated August 2, 2015

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Each week I will update this page with material for the week, including relevent sections in the book. You should skim through the section to get the main idea before coming to class and then read through the section in more detail after class.


Week
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Sections
Brief Description
1 June 25--27 Special Meeting: 9:15AM, Saturday 1.2, 2.2 Discrete and Continuous Probability Basics
2 June 29--July 2 X-Hour Lab; No class on July 3 3.1, 3.2 Permutations, Combinations, Binomial Distribution
3 July 6--10 4.1, 4.2 Conditional Probability (Discrete & Continuous)
4 July 13--17 X-Hour Lab 6.1, 6.2, 5.1 (Discrete) Expected Value, (Discrete) Variance, (Discrete) Distributions
5 July 20--24 Midterm 1: July 23 6.3, 5.2, 7.1 Continuous expected value, Continuous variance, important densities, sums of random variables
6 July 27--31 X-Hour Lab 7.2, 8.1, 8.2 Sums of continuous random variables, Law of large numbers
7 August 3--7 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 Central Limit Theorem
8 August 10--14 Midterm 2: August 11 11.1, 11.2 Markov Chains, Absorbing Chains
9 August 17--21 X-Hour Lab 11.3, 11.4, 11.5 Ergodic Chains, matrix_tutorial.R, worksheet solutions