Probability
Fall 2020 – Math 151 HW Schedule
Work Parties (fka Office Hours) — on Discord (see Sakai for link)
Wednesday 8:30-10:30 am PDT
Thursday 12 – 2:00 pm PDT
Friday 7-9am PDT
Mentors: TBA
Text: Probability and Statistics, by DeGroot and Schervish (either 3rd or 4th edition is fine)
Handouts:
- Distribution Sheet
- Probability distribution demos: ISLE widgets
- Fantastic cheat sheet for Univariate Distributions created by Lindsey Leemis
- Clicker Questions (many of which are given in my notes which are on Sakai)
| Week | Topic | Sections | Homework (due Friday at midnight to Gradescope) | Handouts
(all videos are on Box) |
Warm-ups (due by 5pm day after dated, to Gradescope) |
| 1. 8/24 | logistics, history, set theory | 1.1-1.7 | HWset #1 pdf & R Markdown | 1st Day Handout pdf
Instructions for submitting assignments via Gradescope
Videos: 8/24 – R |
Warm-up 1: 8/24 |
| 2. 8/31 | probability & counting | 1.8-1.11 | HWset #2 pdf & R Markdown | Videos:
9/2 – *nomials (optional) |
Warm-up 3: 8/31 |
| 3. 9/7 | conditional probability, independence, Bayes | 2.1-2.4 | HWset #3 pdf & R Markdown | Warm-up 5: 9/7 | |
| 4. 9/14 | random variables & distributions | 3.1-3.3 | HWset #4 pdf & R Markdown | Posterior Probabilities pdf
Distributions and RVs pdf |
Warm-up 7: 9/14
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| 5. 9/21 | bivariate & marginal distributions | 3.4, 3.5 | HWset #5 pdf & R Markdown | Warm-up 9: 9/21 | |
| 6. 9/28 | conditional & functions of random variables | 3.6, 3.8, 3.9 | not ever due:
HWset #6 pdf & R Markdown |
Warm-up 11: 9/28 | |
| Sunday 10/4 | exam 1 take-home | due Sunday at 5pm | |||
| 7. 10/5 | expectation, variance | 4.1-4.3 | OPTIONAL
HWset #7 pdf & R Markdown |
Simulating RVs pdf | Warm-up 13: 10/5
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| 8. 10/12 | moments, mean, median | 4.4, 4.5 | HWset #8 pdf & R Markdown | Warm-up 15: 10/12 | |
| 9. 10/19 | covariance, correlation | 4.6, 4.7 | HWset #9 pdf & R Markdown | Warm-up 17: 10/19 | |
| 10. 10/26 | Bernoulli, & binomial, Poisson | 5.1, 5.2, 5.4 | HWset #10 pdf & R Markdown | Warm-up 19: 10/26 | |
| 11. 11/2 | Normal, Beta | 5.6, 5.10 | Warm-up 21: 11/2
No class on 11/4, please vote!! |
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| 12. 11/9 | LLN | 6.2 | DUE MONDAY 11/9
HWset #11 pdf & R Markdown |
Warm-up 22: 11/9 | |
| Sunday 11/15 | exam 2 take-home | due Sunday at 5pm | |||
| 13. 11/16 | CLT | 6.3 | Warm-up 24: 11/16 | ||
| 14. 11/23 | review & catch-up | DUE WEDNESDAY 11/25
HWset #12 pdf & R Markdown |
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| Wednesday 12/2 | final take-home due |
