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1/18 - Welcome to DATA 88S!!!

Week 0 Overview

Getting Started

Week 1

Course Introduction and Chapter 1

Week 2

Intersections and Conditioning

Week 3

Random Variables

Week 4

Random Counts, Exponential Approximations, and the (Hyper)geometric Distributions

Week 5

Poisson, Expectation, and Additivity

Week 6

More expectation, Method of Indicators, Joint Distributions

Week 7

Review, Midterm

Week 8

Standard Deviation, Variance

Week 9

WeekDateContentNotes & Assignments
1 1/18-1/20 Wednesday: Course introduction; fundamentals (1.1)
Friday: Exact calculations; bounds (1.2)
Homework 1 (Due 1/24 at 11:59pm)
Wednesday Recap
Friday Recap
Friday Discussion (1/20)
2 1/23-1/27 Monday: The rules (1.3)
Wednesday: Conditioning and updating (2.1 - 2.3)
Wednesday Discussion: Ch. 1 Ex 2, 3, 4, 5
Friday: Independence (2.4, 2.5)
Homework 2 (Due 1/31 at 8:00pm)
Monday Recap
Wednesday Recap
Friday Recap
Friday Discussion (1/27)
3 1/30-2/3 Monday: Random variables; equality (3.1, 3.2)
Wednesday: Quiz 1 ; Basic counting; random counts
Friday: Finish 3.2, binomial and hypergeometric (3.3, 3.4)
Friday Discussion: Ch. 2 Ex 6, 11 and Ch. 3 Ex. 1ab
Homework 3 (Due 2/7 at 11:59pm)
Monday Recap
Wednesday Recap
Friday Recap
4 2/6-2/10 Monday: Binomial/hypergeometric examples (3.5), CDF (4.1)
Wednesday: Finish Binomial/hypergeom examples; the CDF
Friday: Random counts: geometric
Friday Discussion: Ch. 3 Ex. 9, 4 and Ch. 4 Ex. 2, 4
Homework 4 (Due 2/14 at 11:59pm)
Monday Recap
Wednesday Recap
Wednesday Discussion (2/8)
Friday Discussion
5 2/13-2/17 Monday: Exponential approximations
Wednesday: Law of small numbers: Poisson
Wednesday Discussion: Ch. 4 Ex. 5, 10, 6
Friday: Expectation
Friday Discussion: Ch. 4 Ex. 7, 8, 12, 11
Homework 5 (Due 2/22 at 11:59pm)
Monday Recap
Wednesday Recap
Friday Recap
6 2/20-2/24 Monday: President's Day, no class
Wednesday: Additivity; Joint and marginal distributions
Wednesday Discussion: Ch. 5 Ex. 2, 3, 1
Friday: Method of indicators
Friday Discussion (2/24)
Wednesday Recap
Friday Recap
7 2/27-3/3 Monday: Method of indicator examples
Wednesday: Review
Friday: Midterm (in class) on chapters 1-5
Monday Recap
Wednesday Recap
8 3/6-3/10 Monday: Unbiased estimators
Wednesday: Conditional distributions and expectation
Wednesday Discussion: Ch. 5 Ex. 8, 9, 11
Friday: Expectation by conditioning (5.6)
Friday Discussion: Ch. 5 12, 14, 13
Homework 6 (Due 3/14 at 11:59pm)
Monday Recap
Wednesday Recap
Friday Recap
9 3/13-3/17 Monday: Variance
Wednesday: Tail probabilities and bounds
Wednesdasy Discussion: Midterm Retake
Friday: Markov's and Chebyshev's inequalities
Friday Discussion: Ch. 6 2, 4, 7, 5
Monday Recap
Wednesday Recap
Friday Recap
10 3/20-3/24 Monday: Variance of the sample sum and sample mean
Wednesday: Variance of famous distributions
Wednesday Discussion: Quiz 2
Friday: Large samples: law of large numbers
Friday Discussion: Ch. 7 4b, MT 2b, Quiz 2 Review
Homework 7 (Due 4/4 at 11:59pm)
Monday Recap
Wednesday Recap
Friday Recap
11 4/3-4/7 Monday: Large samples: law of large numbers
Wednesday: Central Limit Theorem
Wednesday Discussion: Ch. 7 9, 11, 12
Friday: Confidence intervals
Homework 8 (Due 4/11 at 8:00pm)
Monday Recap
Wednesday Recap
Friday Discussion (4/6)
12 4/10-4/14 Monday: Testing hypotheses
Wednesday: Quiz 3 ; Expectation and variance revisited
Friday: The exponential distribution
Friday Discussion: Ch. 9 Ex. 1, 2, 4
Homework 9 (Due 4/18 at 11:59pm)
13 4/17-4/21 Monday: The normal distribution
Wednesday: Comparing two samples
Friday: Estimation: bias and variance
Friday Discussion: Ch. 9 Ex. 9, 10, 11
Homework 10 (Due 4/25 at 11:59pm)
Wednesday Discussion (4/19)
14 4/24-4/28 Monday: Correlation and the regression line
Wednesday: Regression effect; residuals
Wednesday Discussion: Ch. 10 Ex. 1abcd, 2, 3
Friday: Inference in regression; Conclusion
Friday Discussion: Ch. 10 Ex. 4
Homework 11 (Due 5/2 at 11:59pm)