Probability
Math 336
Brad Hartlaub
Fall 2021

Course Syllabus

Google Drive Folder

Daily Agendas

• August 27
• August 30
• September 1
• September 3 - Problem Session
• September 6
• September 8
• September 10 - Problem Session
• September 13
• September 15
• September 17 - Problem Session
• September 20 - Complete problem session and independence problems
• September 22
• September 24
• September 27 - Problem Session
• September 29 - Problem Session
• October 1 - Group exercises and complete Chapter 4
• October 4
• October 6 - Exam 1 - you may use 2 sheets of notes (8.5"x11"), your laptop, and our course web page during the exam
• October 11
• October 13
• October 15 - Problem Session
• October 18 - Complete Problem Session and Return to transformation of variables
• October 20
• October 22
• October 24 - Problem Session
• October 25 - November 5 - Professor Snipes covered class
• November 8 - Discussion of Projects - see Google Drive for examples
• November 10 - Transformation of Variables Technique #2 - Using the Jacobian
• November 12 - Beta Distribution and completing the beta (an easy way to do some integration)
• November 15 - Normal distributions - properties, m.g.f., and linear combinations
• November 17 - Covariance and p.g.f.
• November 19 - Exam #2 - you may use 2 sheets of notes (8.5"x11"), your laptop, and our course web page during the exam
• November 29 - Discussion of Exam #2 and Project Presentation
  • Ella - Expected Value Problem for Bivariate Random Variables
• December 1 - Project Presentations
  • Luke and Thomas - Pareto distribution
  • Grayson - Bivariate normal distribution
• December 3 - Project Presentations
  • Ryan - Bayesian parameter estimation
  • Eli - Order Statistics
• December 6 - Project Presentations
  • Hamza and Yousaf - log-normal distribution
  • Jake and Nick - Weibull distribution
• December 8 - Project Presentations
  • Cat and Prashant - Survival Analysis
  • Irina and Jose - Benford's Law
• December 10 - Course wrap up and individual consultations
  • Casey - Markov chains

Homework Assignments

Your solutions must be submitted electronically to your Google Drive folder. You must submit a PDF of your solutions. For example, the name of the file for the first homework assignment should be HW1-yourname.PDF.

• HW #1 - PS on Friday, Sept. 3, written solutions are due on Monday, Sept. 6
• HW #2 - PS on Friday, Sept. 10, written solutions are due on Monday, Sept. 13
• HW #3 - PS on Friday, Sept. 17, written solutions are due on Wednesday, Sept. 22
• HW #4 - PS on Monday, Sept. 27, written solutions are due on Wednesday, Sept. 29
• HW #5 - PS on Friday, Oct. 15, written solutions are due on Monday, Oct. 18
• HW #6 - PS on Monday, Oct. 24, written solutions are due on Wednesday, Oct. 26
• HW #7 - PS on Monday, Nov. 8, written solutions are due on Wednesday, Nov. 10
• HW #8
• HW #9
• HW #10

Exam Samples

• See our Google Drive folder

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