MA 118 - Spring 2005
Probability for Business and Liberal Arts

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Syllabus :  

No.

Date
Lecture Topics Assigned Exercises
Wk







L1 W Jan 19
Introduction, 2.1  Sample Space

1
L2 F Jan 21
2.2 Events, 2.3 Counting Sample Points


L3 M Jan 24
2.3 Counting Sample Points, 2.4 Probability of an Event
2
L4 W Jan 26
2.4 Probability of an Event, 2.5 Additive Rules Recitation 1:


R1 F Jan 28
Recitation
2.2: 10, 15, 19; 2.38, 21, 26, 29
2.54, 5, 6, 8,15


L5 M Jan 31
2.6 Conditional Probability, 2.7 Multiplicative Rules
Home work #1:
3
L6 W Feb 2
2.8 Bayes' Rule
2.2: 20; 2.3: 28; 2.5: 6, 8
2.7: 6, 16, 222.8: 2, 4, 8
Due Monday, Feb 7


R2 F Feb 4
Recitation Recitation 2:
2.5: 15; 2.7: 4, 12, 8, 23; 2.8: 1, 3, 6


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


L9 M Feb 14
3.4 Joint Probability Distributions (cont'd) Hw1 is graded and given to students

5
L10 W Feb 16
4.1 Mean of a Random Variable Review 1, 6p.m., Kidde 228


T1 F Feb 18
Test 1  covers Chapter 2
Test 1


--
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


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.

R5 F Mar 4
Recitation
Recitation 5:
4.1: 17, 18, 23; 4.2: 13, 16;
4.4: 8, 11, 14, 16.



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 6:

R6 F Mar 11
Recitation
5.3: 1, 3, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19


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




-- M Mar 21
Spring Recess


10
-- W Mar 23
No classes

-- F Mar 25
No classes


L18 M Mar 28
6.1 Continuous Uniform Distribution, 6.2 Normal Distribution
6.3 Areas under the Normal Curve

11
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

R7 F Apr 1
Recitation
6.4: 5, 6, 13, 19

L20 M Apr 4
6.5 Normal Approximation to the Binomial
6.6 Gamma and Exponential Distributions
Home work #3:
12
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;

R8 F Apr 8
Recitation
Recitation 8:
6.4: 6, 13, 19;  6.5: 5, 13;  6.10: 7, 13, 15.


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

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


T3 F Apr 22
Test 3 covers Chapters  5 and 6
Test 3

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


L28
M
May 2
Review
Hw4 is collected
16

Rev -- TBA





Fin -- TBA







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