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Cheating Policy: You can work together on the homeworks. Exams are individual work only. If I have determined that you have cheated, following the procedures for evaluating and reporting academic misconduct at IUB, I will give you an F* in the course.
Religious Holiday Policy: If you will miss class, especially a class during which there will be an exam or other required work, for a religious holiday, you must inform me during the first two weeks of the semester.
| Tentative Syllabus | |
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| Date | Topics |
| Monday, August 26 | Random number generation |
| Wednesday, August 28 | Discrete probability distributions |
| Friday, August 30 | Discrete probability distributions |
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Homework Problem Set 1 Due Wednesday, September 4 | |
| Monday, September 2 | Labor Day Holiday |
| Wednesday, September 4 | Continuous probability distributions |
| Friday, September 6 | Continuous probability distributions |
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Homework Problem Set 2 Due Wednesday, September 11 | |
| Monday, September 9 | Permutations |
| Wednesday, September 11 | Combinations |
| Friday, September 13 | Combinations |
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Homework Problem Set 3 Due Wednesday, September 18 | |
| Monday, September 16 | Combinatorial Proofs |
| Wednesday, September 18 | Discrete joint and conditional distributions |
| Friday, September 20 | Discrete joint and conditional distributions |
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Homework Problem Set 4 Due Wednesday, September 25 | |
| Monday, September 23 | Continuous joint and conditional distributions |
| Wednesday, September 25 | Continuous joint and conditional distributions |
| Friday, September 27 | Mixtures and paradoxes |
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Homework Problem Set 5 Due Friday, October 4 | |
| Monday, September 30 |
Review Practice Exam 1 |
| Wednesday, October 2 | Exam 1 |
| Friday, October 4 | Important discrete distributions |
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Homework Problem Set 6 Due Friday, October 11 | |
| Monday, October 7 | Important discrete distributions |
| Wednesday, October 9 | Important densities |
| Friday, October 11 | Important densities |
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Homework Problem Set 7 Due Wednesday, October 16 | |
| Monday, October 14 | Functions of random variables |
| Wednesday, October 16 | Expected value |
| Friday, October 18 | Fall Break: Holiday |
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Homework Problem Set 8 Due Friday, October 25 | |
| Monday, October 21 | Expected value |
| Wednesday, October 23 | Expected value |
| Friday, October 25 | Expected value |
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Homework Problem Set 9 Due Friday, November 1 | |
| Monday, October 28 | Sums of discrete random variables |
| Wednesday, October 30 | Sums of continuous random variables |
| Friday, November 1 | Functions of random variables |
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Homework Problem Set 10 Due Wednesday, November 6 | |
| Monday, November 4 | Laws of Large Numbers |
| Wednesday, November 6 | Methods of convergence |
| Friday, November 8 | Laws of Large Numbers |
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Homework Problem Set 11 Due Friday, November 22 | |
| Monday, November 11 |
Review Practice Exam 2 |
| Wednesday, November 13 | Exam 2 |
| Friday, November 15 | Generating functions |
| Monday, November 18 | Branching processes |
| Wednesday, November 20 | Generating functions |
| Friday, November 22 | Central Limit Theorem |
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Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| Monday, December 2 | Central limit theorem |
| Wednesday, December 4 | Order statistics |
| Friday, December 6 | Approximate methods |
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Homework Problem Set 12 Due Wednesday, December 11 | |
| Monday, December 9 | Rejection method |
| Wednesday, December 11 |
Review and evaluations Practice Final Exam |
| Friday, December 13 | Review |
| Final - Wednesday, December 18, 5-7 pm | |