Topic

Reading (pages)

Practice Exercises

 

16-Aug

Counting methods

1-15

1.1, 1.2, 1.13, 1.31, 1.33,

1.35, 1.43, 1.47

 

18-Aug

Properties of probability

23-38

2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.15, 2.35,

2.39, 2.41, 2.53, 2.57, 2.65, 2.69,

2.75

 

23-Aug

Conditional probability

40-44

2.17, 2.21, 2.23, 2.79, 2.87

 

25-Aug

Independent events

45-48

2.35, 2.89, 2.95, 2.97

 

30-Aug

Bayes' theorem

48-51

2.107

 

1-Sep

Review; Discrete random variables

69-72

 

 

6-Sep

Probability Distributions

72-80

3.1, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.11, 3.83, 3.85

 

8-Sep

Continuous random variables

82-89

3.19, 3.21, 3.22, 3.29, 3.31, 3.91,

3.95

 

13-Sep

Multivariate distributions

92-100

3.43, 3.44, 3.45, 3.47, 3.51, 3.53,

3.101, 3.105

 

15-Sep

 

 

 

 

20-Sep

Test #1 - Chapters 1-3

 

 

 

 

22-Sep

 

 

 

 

27-Sep

Marginal and conditional distributions

104-112

3.69, 3.71, 3.77, 3.107

 

29-Sep

Expectation; Moments

129-136;138-141

4.3, 4.5, 4.7, 4.9, 4.13, 4.61, 4.63,

4.65

 

4-Oct

MGFs

143-146

4.17, 4.19, 4.26, 4.27, 4.31, 4.33,

4.71, 4.73

 

6-Oct

Covariance; Linear combinations

148-155

4.41, 4.45, 4.53, 4.79

 

11-Oct

Fall Break

 

 

 

13-Oct

Bernoulli/Binomial distributions

155-157; 164-169

5.41, 5.43, 5.1, 5.5, 5.10

 

18-Oct

Binomial, Negative binomial distributions

169-172; 174-175

5.57, 5.59, 5.63

 

20-Oct

Hypergeometric distribution

176-179

5.63, 5.69

 

25-Oct

Poisson distribution

179-184

5.73, 5.77

 

27-Oct

Review; multinomial distribution

187-189

 

 

1-Nov

Test #2 - Chapters 4-6

 

 

 

 

3-Nov

 

 

 

 

8-Nov

Uniform, gamma, beta distributions

200-206

6.1, 6.51, 6.3, 6.53, 6.15,

6.17, 6.55, 6.57, 6.61, 6.27

 

10-Nov

Normal distribution

210-216

6.31, 6.63, 6.65, 6.71, 6.75

 

15-Nov

Approximations for Discrete Distributions

216-219

6.79

 

17-Nov

Bivariate normal distribution

220-223

6.43, 6.47

 

22-Nov

Distributions of Functions of Random Variables

234-237

7.1, 7.3, (7.5), (7.8), (7.47)

 

29-Nov

Transformations

239-252

7.9, 7.14,  7.15


 

1-Dec

MGF technique

256-258

7.41, 7.43, 7.45, 7.46, 7.59,
7.48, 7.63

 

13-Dec

Test #3 - Chapters 6-7 (tentative date)