Math 170A, Probability Theory, Winter 2013

Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:30


Tentative Schedule


Syllabus :Math170A_Winter2013


Weekly homework is due at the beginning of Disccusion section. For supplementary problems of the textbook, click [here]

Homework 1 is due on Thursday, Jan 17: HW1

Homework 2 is due on Thursday, Jan 24: HW2

Homework 3 is due on Thursday, Jan 31: HW3

Homework 4 is due on Thursday, Feb 7: HW4 A typo is fixed.

Homework 5 is due on Thursday, Feb 14: HW5

Homework 6 is due on Thursday, Feb 21: HW6

Homework 7 is due on Thursday, Feb 28: HW7

Homework 8 is due on Thursday, Mar 7: HW8

Homework 9 (the last one) is due on Thursday, Mar 14: HW9


Course outline will be updated here during term:

Lec 1: Sets (Section 1.1)

Lec 2: Probabilistic Models (Section 1.2)

Lec 3: Probabilistic Models Continued (Section 1.2)

Lec 4: Conditional Probability (Section 1.3)

Lec 5: Total Probability and Bayes' Rule (Section 1.4)

Lec 6: Independence (Section 1.5)

Lec 7: Counting Models (Section 1.6)

Lec 8: Basic Concepts(Section 2.1)

Lec 9: Probability Mass Functions (Section 2.2)

Lec 10: Functions of Random Variables (Section 2.3)

Lec 11: Expectations (Section 2.4)

Lec 12: Variances (Section 2.4)

Lec 13: Joint PMF (Section 2.5)

Lec 14: Midterm

Lec 15: Covarience and Conditioning (a part of Section 4.1 and Section 2.6)

Lec 16: Conditoning Continued (Section 2.6)

Lec 17: Independence (Section 2.7)

Lec 18: Independence Continued (Section 2.7)

Lec 19: Continuous Random Variables (Section 3.1)

Lec 20: Probability density functions (Section 3.1)

Lec 21: Expectations and Variances of continuous random variables (Section 3.1)

Lec 22: Cumulative Distribution Functions (Section 3.2)

Lec 23: Normal Random Variables (Section 3.3)

Lec 24: Joint PDFs of Mutiple Random Variables (Section 3.4)