Instructor: Elizabeth Meckes
Office: Yost 208
Phone: 368-5015
Email: ese3 [at] cwru.edu
Office Hours: MWF, 11:30 -- 12:30
Textbook: We'll be using a draft of the soon-to-be-published Introduction to Probability by David Anderson, Timo Seppäläinen, and Benedik Valkó. It is posted in the Canvas site for this course.
All course information (including the homework assignments!) is posted here; Canvas is used only for grades and a place to post the text book.
Topics | Book chapters | Weeks |
---|---|---|
Random outcomes and the rules of probability Conditional probability and independence |
1,2 | 1-3 |
Random variables | 3 | 4 |
Approximations of the binomial distribution | 4 | 5-6 |
Transformations of random variables Joint distributions |
5,6 | 7-8 |
Sums and symmetry | 7 | 9 |
Expectation and variance | 8 | 10-11 |
Limit theorems | 9 | 12-13 |
Conditional distributions | 10 | 14 |
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits appeared in the Times in Fall 2010. It offers some advice about studying based on current pedagogical research.
Teaching and Human Memory, Part 2 from The Chronicle of Higher Education in December 2011. Its intended audience is professors, but I think it's worth it for students to take a look as well.
Lecture | Quiz | Chapter(s) | Problems | Due date | Reading for next time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
W 1/18 | 1 | 1.1, 1.2, 1.21 | 1/25 | Sections 1.1, 1.2 | |
F 1/20 | quiz | 1 | 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 1.22 | 1/25 | Sections 1.3, 1.4 |
M 1/23 | quiz | 1 | 1.12, 1.14, 1.15, 1.25 | 1/25 | Section 1.5 |
W 1/25 | quiz | 1 | 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.32, 1.50 | 2/1 | Section 2.1 |
F 1/27 | quiz | 2 | 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.28 | 2/1 | Sections 2.2, 2.3 |
M 1/30 | quiz | 2 | 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.34 | 2/1 | Section 2.4 |
W 2/1 | quiz | 2 | 2.13, 2.14, 2.15, 2.17, 2.37 | 2/8 | none |
F 2/3 | quiz | 2 | 2.19, 2.20, 2.22, 2.39 | 2/8 | 2.5 |
M 2/6 | Exam 1 | 2.5 | |||
W 2/8 | quiz | 2 | 2.24, 2.26, 2.59, 2.64 | 2/15 | 3.1 |
F 2/10 | quiz | 3 | 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.26 | 2/15 | 3.2 |
M 2/13 | quiz | 3 | 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.20 | 2/15 | 3.3 |
W 2/15 | quiz | 3 | 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.30 | 2/22 | 3.4, 3.5 |
F 2/17 | quiz | 3 | 3.23, 3.27, 3.35, 3.60 | 2/22 | 4.1 |
M 2/20 | quiz | 3/4 | 3.18, 3.37, 3.39, 4.13, 4.15 | 2/22 | 4.2 |
W 2/22 | quiz | 4 | 4.3, 4.17, 4.20 | 3/1 | 4.3 |
F 2/24 | quiz | 4 | 4.4, 4.5, 4.25 | 3/1 | none |
M 2/27 | Exam 2 | 4.4 | |||
W 3/1 | quiz | 4 | 4.8, 4.28, 4.30, 4.34 | 3/8 | 4.5 |
F 3/3 | quiz | 4 | 4.11, 4.36, 4.45, 4.48 | 3/8 | 4.6, 5.1 (through pg. 165) |
M 3/6 | quiz | 4 | 4.37, 4.40, 4.46, 4.49 | 3/8 | 5.1 |
W 3/8 | quiz | 5 | 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 5.14 | 3/22 | 5.2 |
F 3/10 | quiz | 5 | 5.8, 5.9, 5.15, 5.21, 5.29 | 3/22 | 6.1 |
M 3/20 | quiz | 6 | 6.2, 6.4, 6.18, 6.20 | 3/22 | 6.2 |
W 3/22 | quiz | 6 | 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.22, 6.35 | 3/29 | 6.3 |
F 3/24 | quiz | 6 | 6.8, 6.11, 6.13, 6.25, 6.28 | 3/29 | 6.4 |
M 3/27 | quiz | 6 | 6.15, 6.16, 6.45, 6.49 | 3/29 | 7.1 |
W 3/29 | quiz | 7 | 7.1, 7.3, 7.4, 7.11, 7.12 | 4/5 | none |
F 3/31 | quiz | none | none | ||
M 4/3 | Exam 3 | 7.2 | |||
W 4/5 | quiz | 7 | 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.17, 7.28 | 4/12 | 8.1 |
F 4/7 | quiz | 8 | 8.1, 8.3, 8.5, 8.15, 8.17 | 4/12 | 8.2 |
M 4/10 | quiz | 8 | 8.6, 8.18, 8.27, 8.30 | 4/12 | 8.4 |
W 4/12 | quiz | 8 | 8.9, 8.10, 8.28, 8.34 | 4/19 | 8.4 |
F 4/14 | quiz | 8 | 8.12 (hint: check covariances), 8.42, 8.43, 8.45 | 4/19 | 9.1 |
M 4/17 | quiz | 9 | 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.7 | 4/19 | 9.2, 9.3 |
W 4/19 | quiz | 9 | 9.4, 9.5, 9.8, 9.10, 9.13 | 4/26 | 9.3, 9.4 |
F 4/21 | quiz | 9 | 9.14, 9.16, 9.17, 9.19 | 4/26 | 10.1 |
M 4/24 | quiz | 10 | 10.2, 10.3, 10.12, 10.15 | 4/26 | 10.3 | W 4/26 | quiz | 10 | 10.14, 10.16, 10.17, 10.24 | uncollected (but good midterm prep!) | none |