Probability and Statistics

Notices

• You can find 'Probability and Statistics' lectures on Khan Academy on internet

• Matlab program manuals (intro, tutor)

• 'Highlights of Calculus lecture by Prof. Gilbert Strang' can be easily found by using Google,Youtube, OCW, or i-Tunes University (link1, link2)

• Good news! Life expectancy increases gradually as a person is getting older. This is the conditional probability ! - MBC Dec. 4 2013 (http://media.daum.net/economic/others/newsview?newsid=20121204132709329)

Book

• Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers, Yates, Goodman.

Lecture Notes (PDF & Video Format)

• Are most triangles acute or obtuse? (link1, link2, pdf)

• What is "marginal" in marginal pmf? (I think 'situated on the border or edge')

• Linearity of expectation, Joint pmf, Conditional pmf (pdf)

• Quiz for cmf (video)

• Quiz for pmf part 1 (video)

• Conditioning a RVs on an event (video)

• Quiz for pmf part 2 (video)

• Joint pmf (pdf)

• Conditional expectation (pdf)

• Conditional prob. with Joint pmf (video)

• Quiz of Goodman's book (video)

• Drug test (video)

• Life expectancy (video)

• Continuous RVs and probability density function (pdf)

• Continuous RVs basic (video)

• Pdf and probability (video)

• Cdf and pdf (video)

• Uniform pdf example (video)

• Continuous RV - Joint pdf (pdf)

• Sample mean of apples (video)

• Do teachers need PCs for teaching (video)

• Margin of error example - Khan Academy (link)

• Continuous conditional RV (video)

• Multiple Random Variables by Prof. Pollak

• Conditioning by Prof. Pollak (pdf)

• Joint & conditional pdf problems (Q1-3, Q4-5, Q6-7, Q8)

Homework

• #01, due to Sep. 11 (Tu.) before the class starts. (download)

• #03, justify your answers. (download)

• #04, follow the instructions. (download)

• #05, what is the prob. that random triangles are acute? (download)