Probability

  Fall 2023 updated 100523

 

Announcement (check the hot item(s))

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100523 Quiz 1, 2, and midterm exam are scheduled.

090123 Welcome!

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Course Info

Lecturer: Prof. Shun-Pin Hsu (許舜斌)

Meeting: Wed. 1:10-2:00 p.m.,  Thu. 1:10-3:00 p.m.

Place: EE108

 

Texabook:

A First Course in Probability, 10th edition hot!!(Global edition)hot!!, 

by Sheldon Ross, Pearson Education, Inc. 

(台灣代理: 華泰文化: 04-2241-3551)

 

Office Hour: Wed. & Thu. 10 am.-12 pm.@EE712

Email: shsu@nchu.edu.tw

Tel: 04-2285-1549 ext 712

 


Teaching Assistant office: EE 611A

陳宇樂  timothy14825@gmail.com

 

Lecture Contents  

 1.  Fundamental  (ch1, ch2, ch3)

Combinatorial Analysis

Axioms of Probability

Conditional Probability and Independence

2. Random Variables (ch4, ch5, ch6)

Definition

Expectation

Discrete Probability Distributions

Continuous Probability Distributions

Jointly Distributed Random Variables

3. More Topics (ch7, ch8)

 Properties of Expectation

      Variance, Covariance and Correlation

      Moment Generating Functions

      Inequalities & Weak Law of Large Number

      Central Limit Theorem

Strong Law of Large Number



Exercise (Self-Test Problems and Exercise, ver.10)

Ch. 1. 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 19

Ch. 2. 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 20

Ch. 3. 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 25, 27, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37

Ch. 4. 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 22, 24, 26, 27, 29

Ch. 5. 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17, 18, 19, 22

Ch. 6. 3, 4, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 26

Ch. 7. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 26, 28, 30, 32

Ch. 8. 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 15


Quiz & Exam  RULE 

Quiz 1:  (ch.1&2)       week 8,  Oct.25  (THU.)

Quiz 2: (ch.3&4)      week  9 , Oct.31  (WED.)

Midterm : ch.1~4     week 9,   Nov. 1  (THU.)

Quiz 3: (ch.5&6):     week 17

Quiz 4: (ch.7&8):     week 18

Final : ch.5~8:          week 18