Stat 516: Basic Probability and Applications (Banner Course Number: 51600)

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Fall 2009 textbook is:

For Sellke, T. M. -- Jim Pitman, Probability, 1st/1999 Edition, Required


Spring 2010 textbook will be:

For Kirshner, S. -- Sheldon Ross, A First Course in Probability, 8th Edition, Required

Outline:

  1. Equally likely outcomes, probability rules, conditional probability and independence.

  2. Repeated trials and sampling; binomial distribution; normal and Poisson approximations.

  3. Random variables, expectation; law of large numbers, central limit theorem.

  4. Continuous distributions.

  5. Continuous joint distributions.

  6. Dependence; conditional distributions and expectations; covariance and correlation; bivariate normal.