ENG-131 COURSE CALENDAR

Numbers refer to sections of the textbook. This calendar is tentative, changes may happen during the quarter.

 WEEK 1
 Thursday 01/03   Introduction: description of the course syllabus. Review of basic concepts.
   1.1 - 1.4
 WEEK 2  Tuesday  01/08   Defintion of probability and finite sampling spaces.
   1.5 - 1.6
   Thursday 01/10   Counting methods
   1.7-1.8
 WEEK 3  Tuesday  01/15   Multinomial coefficients
   1.9-1.10
   Thursday 01/17   Conditioanl probability
   2.1-2.2
 WEEK 4  Tuesday  01/22   Bayes theorem
 Quiz 1 (15%)
   2.3
   Thursday 01/24   Discrete random variables
   3.1; 5.1-5.5
 WEEK 5  Tuesday  01/29   Continuous random variables
   3.2-3.3
   Thursday 01/31   Bivariate distributions
   3.4-3.5
 WEEK 6  Tuesday  02/05  
   Thursday 02/07   Midterm (35%)
 WEEK 7  Tuesday  02/12  
   Thursday 02/14   Conditional distributions
   3.6;3.8
 WEEK 8  Tuesday  02/19   Multivariate distributions
   3.7;3.9
   Thursday 02/21   Expectation.
  4.1-4.2; 5.1-5.5
 WEEK 9  Tuesday  02/26   Variance
 Quiz 2 (15%)
   4.3; 5.1-5.5
   Thursday 02/28    Covariance. Conditional expectation.
   4.6-4.7; 5.1-5.5
 WEEK 10  Tuesday  03/05   The normal distribution and the Central Limit Theorem.
   5.6-5.7
   Thursday 03/07   Other continuous distributions.
   5.9-5.10
 WEEK 11  Tuesday  03/12   Poisson Process. Markov chains.
   5.4;2.4
   Thursday 03/14  
 WEEK 12  Tuesday  03/19  
 

Last update 12/11/01