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Fall 2021 Schedule and Textbook Information for STAT 516

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STAT 516 - Textbook(s) for Fall 2021

CRNTitleAuthorISBNVersionReq/Opt
14669First Course in ProbabilitySheldon Ross978013475311910thN


STAT 516 - Schedule information for Fall 2021

CRNSectionInstructorDayTimeRoom
14927EPEJianxi Su0:0-0:0amASYNC ONLINE
25402OXEJianxi Su0:0-0:0amASYNC ONLINE
14669WNGJianxi SuMWF2:30-3:20pmWANG 2555

STAT 516 - Course 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.

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