• 3/17
  • Topic: Wrappion' things up!
  • Class Exercises
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Prepare For: Final Exam 10-12 AM on Thursday, March 23rd. Study the three exams and what we've done in class since Exam 3.
  • Exam 1 Solutions,   Exam 2 Solutions,   Exam 3 Solutions
• 3/15
  • Topic: More Joint Distributions and Bayes' Theorem.
  • Class Exercises. Answers to 1(a) and 2(a) are in the class notes on pages 5 and 6. 1(b) is 0.00198/0.03192 = 0.062
  • 2(b) is 0.016685 + 0.009734 + 0.008275 = 0.0347 and 2(c) is 0.304266/(0.338315 + 0.304266 + 0.322725) = 0.3152
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Requested: Find your copies of Exams 1 - 3.
• 3/14
  • Topic: Buffon Needle Problem
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Suggested: 1.7: 3 - 6.
  • Requested: Find your copies of Exams 1 - 3.
• 3/13
  • Topic: Bayes' Theorem
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Suggested: 1.7: 3.
• 3/10
  • Topic: Miscellaneous.
  • Class Notes for the day.
• 3/8
  • Exam 3
• 3/7
  • Topic: Covariance.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Prepare For: Exam 3 on Wednesday, March 8th. This might be helpful.
• 3/6
  • Topic: Joint distributions.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Look At: Assignment 10 Solutions and check your work.
  • Prepare For: Exam 3 on Wednesday, March 8th. This might be helpful.
• 3/3
  • Topic: More gamma function.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Turn In: Assignment 10 due Monday.
  • Prepare For: Exam 3 on Wednesday, March 8th. This might be helpful.
• 3/1
  • Topic: Continuous Joint Distributions.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Section 5.4
  • Turn In: Assignment 9 all.
• 2/28
  • Topic: More Joint Distributions, Marginal Distributions.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Section 5.6, especially Examples 5.6(a) and 5.6(c).
  • Turn In: Assignment 8 all.
• 2/27
  • Topic: More Joint Distributions, Marginal Distributions.
  • Class Exercises.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Check: Your incorrect answers on Assignment 5 and Assignment 6, the two integration assignments I gave back today.
  • Read: Section 5.2
  • Suggested: 5.2: all.
• 2/24
  • Topic: Joint Distributions.
  • Class Exercises.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Sections 5.1, 5.2 if you want to get a little ahead.
  • Suggested: 5.1: all.
• 2/22
  • Topic: More Integration, Median of a Distribution.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Turn In: 4.7: 1 - 8, correcting mistakes from the first time.
• 2/21
  • Topic: Integration.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Turn In: Assignment 6
• 2/20
  • Topic: Choosing a Distribution, Integration.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Look At: Quiz 3 if you weren't in class.
  • Turn In: Assignment 5, found on the back of Quiz 3.
• 2/17
  • Topic: Poisson, Exponential and Gamma Distributions.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Turn In: 4.7: 1 - 8 in the manner described on the last page of the class notes.
• 2/14
  • Topic: Review.
  • Class Exercises.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Sections 4.2.
  • Prepare For: Exam 2 on Wednesday, February 15th over Chapters 2 and 3, Sections 4.1 and 4.2.
• 2/13
  • Topic: Negative binomial distribution.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Sections 4.2.
  • Suggested: 4.2: all.
  • Prepare For: Exam 2 on Wednesday, February 15th over Chapters 2 and 3, Sections 4.1 and 4.2.
• 2/8
  • Topic: Hypergeometric distribution.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Sections 4.1.
  • Suggested: 4.1: all.
• 2/7
  • Topic: Normal distribution.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Sections 3.2 and 3.3.
  • Turn In: Assignment 4 due Thursday at noon.
• 2/6
  • Topic: Binomial distribution.
  • Class Exercises.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Section 3.1.
  • Suggested: 3.1: 4
• 2/3
  • Topic: More expected value and variance.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Section 2.5.
  • Suggested: 2.5: any/all
  • Turn In: Assignment 3 originally due Friday, now due Monday
• 2/1
  • Topic: Expected value and variance.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Section 2.5.
  • Suggested: 2.5: any/all
  • Turn In: Assignment 3
• 1/31
  • Topic: Continuous probability functions.
  • Class Exercises.
  • Suggested: 2.4: 4 - 12
• 1/30
  • Topic: Continuous probability functions.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Section 2.4
  • Suggested: 2.4: 1, 2, 3
• 1/27
  • Topic: Continuous probability functions.
  • Class Exercises.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Section 2.3 and Section 2.4
  • Suggested: 2.2: 9, 10 (the parentheses in 10 indicate combinations - see Theorem 1.8), 2.3: 1 - 4
  • Turn In: Assignment 2
• 1/25
  • Exam 1
• 1/24
  • Topic: Review.
  • Class Exercises.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Look At: Assignment 1 Solutions
  • Suggested: 1.1: 2, 8   1.3: 2, 4, 5, 6   1.4: 1, 3, 8   1.5: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7   2.1: 2, 3, 7, 8, 9   2.2: 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Prepare For: Exam 1 on Wednesday, January 25th by doing the above suggested exercises.
• 1/23
  • Topic: Discrete probability distributions.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Section 2.1 and Section 2.1
  • Suggested: 2.1: all exercises,   2.2: 1- 6 all
  • Prepare For: Exam 1 on Wednesday, January 25th by doing the above suggested exercises.
• 1/20
  • Topic: Independent events, multiplication rule.
  • Class Exercises.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Read: Section 2.1 and Section 2.2
  • Suggested: 2.1: all exercises
  • Turn In: Assignment 1 due at the start of class on Monday 1/23
• 1/18
  • Topic: Independent events, multiplication rule.
  • Class Exercises from 1/17.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Suggested: Section 1.5: 4 - 9   Section 1.6: 1, 2
  • Prepare For: Quiz Friday 1/19 on Sections 1.1 - 1.6
• 1/17
  • Topic: Addition Rule, conditional probability.
  • Class Exercises.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Suggested: Section 1.4: All Exercises   Section 1.5: 1, 2, 3
  • Prepare For: Quiz Wednesday 1/17 on Section 1.4
• 1/13
  • Topic: Addition Rule.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Suggested: Section 1.4: All Exercises
  • Prepare For: Quiz Tuesday 1/17 on Section 1.4
• 1/11
  • Topic: Probability, permutations and combinations.
  • Class Exercises from 1/10, used for the first part of class.
  • Class Notes for the day.
  • Suggested: Section 1.4: Exercises 1, 2, 3
  • Prepare For: Quiz Friday on Sections 1.1 - 1.3
• 1/10
  • Topic: Sets, experiments, outcomes and events.
  • Class Exercises for the day.
  • Class Notes for the day
  • Read: Section 1.2 and Section 1.3 through Theorem 1.8.
  • Suggested: Try the exercises from Section 1.2 and Section 1.3 as you read, skipping 1.3: 7, 8
• 1/9
  • Topic: Sets, experiments, outcomes and events.
  • Class Exercises for the day (there is a back side).
  • Class Notes for the day
  • Read: Section 1.1 thoroughly and skim Sections C.1-C.6
  • Suggested: Section 1.1 1-6, 7 first question, 8-11
  • Prepare For: Quiz on the above on Wednesday 1/11.