STA 4321/5325 -- Introduction to Probability

Syllabus

Week	Monday	Wednesday	Thu	Friday
1	Jan 5 Syllabus, Chapter 1	Jan 7 venn diagrams		Jan 9 probability definition and implications
2	Jan 12 counting rules	Jan 14 more counting		Jan 16 §2.5
3	Jan 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day	Jan 21 conditional probability		Jan 23 examples
4	Jan 26 odds and ends of Chapter 3	Jan 28 discrete random variables		Jan 30 review
5	Feb 2 Test I	Feb 4 E and var for discrete rv's		Feb 6 Bernoulli and binomial rv's
6	Feb 9 Bernoulli/binomial	Feb 11 Bernoulli/binomial		Feb 13 geometric and negative binomial
7	Feb 16 geometric/negative binomial	Feb 18 Poisson		Feb 20 Poisson/Hypergeometric
8	Feb 23 hypergeometric	Feb 25 sample test		Feb 27 Test II
9	Mar 2 Test II solved	Mar 4 discrete MGF/Quiz I		Mar 6 Project I
10	Mar 9 Spring Break	Mar 11 Spring Break		Mar 13 Spring Break
11	Mar 16 continuous rv's	Mar 18 E(X),var(X),unif(a,b)		Mar 20 exp(θ)
12	Mar 23 gamma(α,β), normal(μ,σ)	Mar 25 normal, beta		Mar 27 review
13	Mar 30 Test III	Apr 1 mgf, mixed		Apr 3 bivariate rv's
14	Apr 6 conditional, independence	Apr 8 E(g(X,Y)), cov(X,Y), cor(X,Y)		Apr 10 Quiz 2
15	Apr 13 E(X\|Y)	Apr 15 multinomial, functions of rv's, project 2		Apr 17 CLT
16	Apr 20 Test IV	Apr 22 CLT		Apr 24
17			Apr 30 Final (8:00--10:00pm)

§ 2.2 (p.20): 5, 9, 13

§ 2.3 (p.30): 17, 19, 27, 28, 29

§ 2.4 (p.47): 37, 41, 43, 45, 48, 50, 55, 58, 59, 61, 65

§ 2.5 (p.57): 67, 72

§ 2 Supplementary (p.57): as many as possible

§ 3.1 (p.69): 1,2,5,6,9,13,14,20

§ 3.2 (p.81): 23, 27, 28, 29, 37

§ 3.3 (p.87): 45, 48, 51, 53, 54

§ 3.4 (p.94): 56, 58

§ 3 Supplementary (p.96): as many as possible

§ 4.1 (p.110): 5, 11, 13, 14

§ 4.2 (p.127): 17, 18, 20, 25, 28, 36, 37, 38, 42

§ 4.4 (p.147): 43, 45, 50, 52, 55, 61, 64

§ 4.6 (p.165): 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 77, 79, 82, 85, 88

§ 4.7 (p.175): 89, 90, 92, 93, 98, 106, 108

§ 4.8 (p.183): 109, 114, 118

§ 4 Supplementary (p.205): as many as possible

§ 5.1 (p.220): 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11

§ 5.2 (p.230): 13, 16, 22, 23, 25

§ 5.3 (p.237): 27, 29, 30, 36, 38

§ 5.4 (p.230): 41, 45, 48, 51, 57, 60

§ 5.5 (p.256): 65, 68, 71, 72

§ 5.6 (p.279): 77, 80, 83, 91, 95, 97

§ 5.7 (p.289): 105, 106, 108, 112, 117

§ 5.10 (p.310): 137, 138, 139, 140

§ 5.11 (p.315): 147, 149, 150

§ 5 Supplementary (p.317): as many as possible

§ 6.1 (p.337): 1, 5, 6, 13, 14

§ 6.3 (p.349): 19, 21, 23

§ 6.4 (p.365): 29, 30, 35, 36, 37, 41

§ 6.5 (p.373): 46, 47, 48, 51, 55

§ 6.6 (p.379): 60, 61, 67

§ 7.3 (p.405): 5, 6, 8, 10, 13

§ 8.4 (p.465): 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 27, 33