Calendar

CS206, Spring 2007

Sections 01,02

 

Weeks

Topics covered and Readings

Comments / Dues

Week 1

 1/16/07

·   Introduction

·   Review set theory: Rosen Sec 2.1,2.2

·   Basic Counting techniques, sum and produce rules: Rosen Sec 5.1

 

Week 2

 1/23/07

·   Combination and Permutations: Rosen 5.3

·   Permutations with indistinguishable objects: Rosen 5.5

·   HW1 will be assigned

Week 3

1/30/07

·   Generalized Permutation and Combinations: Rosen 5.5

·   HW1 due Tue 1/30/07

·   Quiz 1 on Thu 2/1/07  [Answers]

Week 4

2/6/07

·   Binomial Coefficients: Rosen 5.4

·   HW2 due Tue 2/6/07

·   Quiz 2 on Thu 2/8/07 [Answers]

Week 5

2/13/07

·   Generating Permutations and Combinations: Rosen 5.6

·   Axioms of Probability: Ross Ch 2

No HW

Week 6

2/20/07

·   Intro to Probability: Finite and infinite sample spaces, continuous sample spaces: Ross Ch 2

·   Conditional Probability: Ross Ch 3

 

Week 7

2/27/07

·   Conditional Probability, Bayes’ Formula

·   Independence : Ross Ch 3

·   HW3 due Tue 2/27/07

·   Quiz 3 on Thu 3/1/07 [Answers]

Week 8

3/6/07

·   Review

·   Midterm I

 

·   HW4 due Tue 3/6/07

·   Midterm I on 3/8/07

 

Week 9

3/13/07

 

 

Week 10

3/20/07

·   Random Variables, Expectation and Variance: Ross Ch 4

 

 

Week 11

3/27/07

·   Random Variables – Bernoulli and Binomial R.V.:  Ross Ch 4

 

 

Week 12

4/3/07

·  Random Variables – Poisson RV: Ross Ch 4

·  Continuous Random Variables

·   HW5 due Tue 4/3/07

·   Quiz 4 on Thu 4/5/07 [Answers]

Week 13

4/10/07

·  Continuous Random Variables: Ross Ch 5.1, 5.2

·  Uniform and Normal distributions: Ross 5.3, 5.4

·   HW6 due Tue 4/10/07

 

Week 14

4/17/07

 

·  Midtem II on Thu 4/19

·                   HW7 due Tue 4/17/07

·                   Midterm II on Thu 4/19/07

 

 

Week 15

4/24/07

Joint Distributions: Ross 6.1, 6.2

Covariance and Correlation: Ross 7.4

Limit thm, Markov and Chebyshev's Inq: 8.1