MA 118 - Spring 2005
Probability for Business and Liberal Arts

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This course is designed only for undergraduate students in Business and Liberal Arts majors. It introduces basic concepts and methods in probability. Topics include the definition of sample spaces, events and theirs probabilities; elementary combinatorics and counting techniques; conditional probability, the total probability and Bayes' Theorem.

The course also discusses concepts of discrete and continuous random variables, and probability distributions; multi-random variables and their joint distributions; the mean, variance and covariance of random variables; the Central Limit Theorem, "t"- and "F"-distributions.

Prerequisite: Ma 117

Textbook:
Walpole, Myers, Myers, Ye: Probability & Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, 7th Edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2002
Web Site:
http://personal.stevens.edu/~mzabaran/MA118/index.html

Section   Lecture Schedule   Room   Instructor
 
Ma118-A M      10:30am - 11:20am McLean 106 Prof. Zabarankin

W,F   10:30am - 11:20am E.A. Stevens 212
 
Ma118-B T,F     9:30am - 10:20am E.A. Stevens 212 Prof. Dostal

R      11:30am - 12:20am E.A. Stevens 212


Last update January-12-2005

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