STAT 134: Concepts of Probability
Spring 2014
Lecture Schedule
The section numbers given here are from the two text book.
Please note that this is just a guide and may change as the semester progress.The web-page will be updated
accordingly.
- Week-1: (01/21 - 01/23)
- Tu: Course policy. Introduction.
- Th: Sections 1.1 and 1.3.
- Week-2: (01/28 - 01/30)
- Tu: Sections 1.2 and 1.3.
- Th: Sections 1.4 and 1.5.
- Week-3: (02/04 - 02/06)
- Tu: Section 1.6 and Concept of Independence.
- Th: Sections 2.1 and 2.5.
- Week-4: (02/11 - 02/13)
- Tu: Section 2.2.
- Th: Section 2.4.
- Week-5: (02/18 - 02/20)
- Tu: Sections 3.1, 3.4 and 3.6
(Random variables, distributions, examples with Bernoulli, Binomial,
Discrete Uniform, Hypergeometric, Geometric).
- Th: Section 3.1 and 6.1 (Two random variables, joint distributions, marginals,
Conditional distributions, independence. Convolution Formula).
- Week-6: (02/25 - 03/27)
- Tu: Section 3.1 (Many random variables, join and marginal distributions,
independence. Distribution of sum, product, maximum and minimum.
Negative Binomial distribution. Sum of independent Poisson.
Multinomial distribution).
- Th: Section 3.2 (Expectation, interpretation, sum formula, indicator method, examples.
Tail Sum Formula, Booles's Inequality, Union Bound, Inclusion-exclusion formula).
- Week-7: (03/04 - 03/06)
- Tu: Sections 3.2 and 3.3 (Function of a random variable and its expectations,
square and higher moments. Variance, standard deviation.
Expectation and independence, product formula.
Variance and independence and sum formula, examples).
- Th: Sections 3.5 and 3.6: (Hypergeometric and Poission distributions).
- Week-8: (03/11 - 03/13)
- Tu: Review for Midterm.
- Th: Midterm Examination.
- Week-9: (03/18 - 03/20)
- Tu: Sections 3.2 and 3.3 (Tail estimates, Markov and Chebychev Inequalities, LLN, CLT).
- Th: Sections 4.1 and 4.2 (Normal, Uniform, Exponential random variables as scaling limits of
discrete random variables).
- Week-10: (03/25 - 03/27)
- Tu: No Class: Spring Break.
- Th: No Class: Spring Break.
- Week-11: (04/01 - 04/03)
- Tu: Sections 4.1, 4.4 and 4.5 (Expectation, variance, standard deviation of continuous
random variables. Cumulative distribution function, properties,
Fundamental Theorem of Probability. Linear transformation of a continuous random variable).
- Th: Section 4.4 (Change of variable formula).
- Week-12: (04/08 - 04/10)
- Tu: Section 4.5 (More on Cumulative Distribution Function, Quantile function and simulation).
- Th: Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4.
- Week-13: (04/15 - 04/17)
- Tu: Sections 4.2, 4.6, 5.3 and 5.4.
- Th: Section 4.6, 5.3, 5.4.
- Week-14: (04/22 - 04/24)
- Tu: Section 4.2.
- Th: Sections 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3.
- Week-15: (04/29 - 05/01)
- Tu: Section 6.4.
- Th: Sections 6.4 and 6.5.