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MA 118 - Spring 2005
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Probability for Business and Liberal Arts
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| No. | Date | Lecture Topics | Assigned Exercises | Wk | ||||
| L1 | W | Jan 19 |
Introduction, 2.1 Sample Space | 1 |
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| L2 | F | Jan 21 |
2.2 Events, 2.3 Counting Sample Points | |||||
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| L3 | M | Jan 24 |
2.3 Counting Sample Points, 2.4 Probability of an Event | 2 |
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| L4 | W | Jan 26 |
2.4 Probability of an Event, 2.5 Additive Rules | Recitation
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| R1 | F | Jan 28 |
Recitation |
2.2: 10, 15, 19; 2.3:
8, 21, 26, 29 2.5: 4, 5, 6, 8,15 |
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| L5 | M | Jan 31 |
2.6
Conditional Probability, 2.7 Multiplicative
Rules |
Home work #1: |
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| L6 | W | Feb 2 |
2.8 Bayes' Rule |
2.2: 20; 2.3: 28;
2.5: 6,
8 2.7: 6, 16, 22; 2.8: 2, 4, 8 Due Monday, Feb 7 |
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| R2 | F | Feb 4 |
Recitation | Recitation
2: 2.5: 15; 2.7: 4, 12, 8, 23; 2.8: 1, 3, 6 |
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| L7 | M | Feb 7 |
3.1 Concept of Random Variable, 3.2 Discrete Probability Distributions | Hw1 is collected | 4 | |||
| L8 | W | Feb 9 |
3.3 Continuous Probability Distributions, 3.4 Joint Probability Distributions | |||||
| R3 | F | Feb 11 |
Recitation | Recitation
3: 3.3: 25, 11, 15, 16, 9, 5, 21, 14 |
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| L9 | M | Feb 14 |
3.4 Joint Probability Distributions (cont'd) | Hw1 is graded and given to students |
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| L10 | W | Feb 16 |
4.1 Mean of a Random Variable | Review 1, 6p.m., Kidde 228 |
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| T1 | F | Feb 18 |
Test 1 covers Chapter 2 |
Test 1 |
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M | Feb 21 |
President’s
Day -- No classes |
Recitation 4: | 6 | |||
| L11 | W | Feb 23 |
4.2 Variance and Covariance | 3.4: 3, 12, 13, 15 | ||||
| R4 | F | Feb 25 |
Recitation |
4.1: 12, 13, 21; 4.2: 3, 5 |
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| L12 |
M | Feb 28 |
4.2 Variance and Covariance
(cont'd) |
Home work #2: | 7 | |||
| L13 | W | Mar 2 |
4.3 Means and Variances of Linear Combinations of Random Variables | 3.3: 24, 26; 3.4: 2,
14, 18; 4.1: 10, 16; 4.2: 12; 4.4: 2, 12. |
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| R5 | F | Mar 4 |
Recitation |
Recitation
5: 4.1: 17, 18, 23; 4.2: 13, 16; 4.4: 8, 11, 14, 16. |
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| L14 | M | Mar 7 |
4.3 Means and Variances of
Linear Combinations of Random Variables (cont'd) 4.4. Chebyshev's Theorem |
Hw2 is collected | 8 | |||
| L15 | W | Mar 9 |
5.2 Discrete Uniform Distribution, 5.3 Binomial and Multinomial Distributions | Recitation
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| R6 | F | Mar 11 |
Recitation |
5.3: 1,
3, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 |
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| L16 | M | Mar 14 |
5.3 Binomial and Multinomial Distributions (cont'd) | Hw2 is graded and given to students | 9 | |||
| T2 | W | Mar 16 |
Test 2 covers Chapters 3 and 4 | Test 2 | ||||
| L17 | F | Mar 18 |
5.5 Negative Binomial and
Geometric Distributions 5.6 Poisson Distribution and the Poisson Process |
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Spring
Recess |
10 | ||||
| -- | W | Mar 23 |
No classes | |||||
| -- | F | Mar 25 |
No classes | |||||
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| L18 | M | Mar 28 |
6.1 Continuous Uniform
Distribution, 6.2 Normal Distribution 6.3 Areas under the Normal Curve |
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| L19 | W | Mar 30 |
6.3
Areas under the Normal
Curve (cont'd) 6.4 Applications of the Normal Distribution |
Recitation
7: 5.6: 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 21 |
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| R7 | F | Apr 1 |
Recitation |
6.4: 5, 6, 13, 19 | ||||
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| L20 | M | Apr 4 |
6.5 Normal Approximation to
the Binomial 6.6 Gamma and Exponential Distributions |
Home work #3: |
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| L21 | W | Apr 6 |
6.7 Applications of the Exponential and Gamma Distributions 6.8 Chi-Squared Distribution |
5.3: 12,
22; 5.6: 10,
12, 24; 6.4: 10, 20; 6.5: 12; 6.10: 8, 18; |
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| R8 | F | Apr 8 |
Recitation |
Recitation
8: 6.4: 6, 13, 19; 6.5: 5, 13; 6.10: 7, 13, 15. |
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| L21 | M | Apr 11 |
8.1 Random Sampling, 8.2 Some Important Statistics | 13 | ||||
| L23 | W | Apr 13 |
8.3 Data Displays and Graphical Methods | Hw3 is collected | ||||
| R9 | F | Apr 15 |
Recitation | Recitation
9: 6.4: 15, 18, 21; 6.5: 6, 14; 6.10: 4, 14, 19 |
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| L24 | M | Apr 18 |
8.4 Sampling Distributions, 8.5 Sampling Distribution of Means | Hw3 is graded and given to students | 14 | |||
| L25 | W | Apr 20 |
8.5 Sampling Distribution of
Means (cont'd) 8.6 Sampling Distribution of S^2 |
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| T3 | F | Apr 22 |
Test 3 covers Chapters
5 and 6 |
Test 3 | ||||
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| L26 | M | Apr 25 |
8.7 t-Distribution | Hw4 is assigned | 15 | |||
| L27 |
W | Apr 27 |
8.8 F-Distribution | |||||
| R10 | F | Apr 29 |
Recitation | |||||
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| L28 |
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May 2 |
Review |
Hw4 is collected | 16 |
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| Rev | -- | TBA |
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| Fin | -- | TBA |
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Last update January-12-2005 |
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