MAT 516 Probability and Statistics for Teachers Fall 2010
Mathematics department
Julia Viro

Generalities	Instructor	Schedule	Tests	SOLAR	Blackboard

Tentative schedule

Days	Contents	Sections	Homework
M 8/30 W 9/1	Sample space ane events. Axioms of probability and their simplest corollaries.	1.1-1.4	HW 1 (due M 9/13): p. 9 ## 2, 16; p. 23 ## 4, 8, 10, 18, 20.
M 9/6 no classes W 9/8	Continuity of probability function.	1.5-1.7
M 9/13 W 9/15	Test 1 (Chapter 1). Combinatorics: Counting principles, permutations.	2.1-2.3	HW 2 (due W 9/22): p. 44 ## 2, 8, 20, 27; p. 51 ## 10, 14, 22.
M 9/20 W 9/22	Combinatorics: combinations and binomial theorem. Stirling's formula.	2.4-2.5	HW 3 (due M 9/27): p. 64 ## 10, 12, 14, 18, 40
M 9/27 W 9/29	Test 2 (Chapter 2).	3.1-3.3
M 10/4 W 10/6	Conditional probability. Multiplication rule.	3.1-3.3	HW 4 (due M 10/11): p. 82 ## 2, 6, 8, 16, p. 87 ## 4, 10
M 10/11 W 10/13	Law of total probability. Bayes' formula. Independence.Test 3 (Chapter 3).	3.3-3.5	HW 5 (due M 10/25): p. 96 ## 2, 4, 6, p. 105 # 6, p. 119 ## 4, 8, 10, 16
M 10/18 W 10/20	Random variables. Distributions. Probability mass function. Expected value.	4.1-4.4
M 10/25 W 10/27	Variance and standard deviation. Moments.	4.5	HW 6 (due M 11/8): p. 151 ## 7, 10, p. 157 # 2, 8, p. 173 ## 2, 12, 14
M 11/1 W 11/3	Test 4 (Chapter 4). Bernoulli and binomial random variables.	5.1
M 11/8 W 11/10	Poisson random variable. Geometric random variable.	5.2-5.3	HW 7 (due W 11/17): p. 182 # 6, p. 185 (Ex. 4.6) # 2, p. 185 (Review Problems) ## 2, 5, 9
M 11/15 W 11/17	Test 5 (Chapter 5). Continous random variables. Probability density functions.	6.1-6.2
M 11/22 W 11/24 Friday schedule	Expectation, variance and standard deviation.	6.3	HW 8 (due W 12/1): p. 196 ## 6, 8, 18, p. 211 ## 2, 10, p. 225 # 6
M 11/29 W 12/1	Test 6 (Chapter 6). Uniform and normal random variables.	7.1-7.2	HW 9 (due W 12/8): p. 238 # 3 p. 254 # 2, p. 281 # 6
M 12/6 W 12/8	Final review.
M 12/13 2:15pm-4:45pm	Final exam