Jeremy Schiff: General Probability (88-262)

General Probability (88-262)

This is a 2-hour-a-week, one semester course taken by math minors (most of whom are CS majors) as well as students on the "CS murhav" track. I have taught this course since 1998/9. The students continue from this course to a one-semester course on statistics. You can look at the official syllabus here. I follow this plan for my lectures (the plan covers 11 lectures; unfortunately both times I have taught the course there have been strikes that have "shortened" the semester). Below you can find exercise sets, handouts, and past exams.

Postscript Versions of Files

Exercise Sets

On material of lecture 1
On material of lecture 2
On material of lecture 3
On material of lecture 4
On material of lecture 5
On material of lecture 6
On material of lectures 7,8
On material of lecture 9
On material of lecture 10

Handouts

Stirling's approximation to n!
The probability of a sample of r people all having different birthdays
Poisson as a limit of the binomial distribution
Values of the c.d.f. of the standard normal variable
The normal approximation to binomial
The normal approximation to Poisson
Expectation and variance for some standard distributions

Exams

1998/9 Moed Aleph
1998/9 Moed Bet
1999/2000 Moed Aleph
1999/2000 Moed Bet
2000/1 Moed Aleph
2000/1 Moed Aleph, with solutions
2000/1 Moed Bet
2001/2 Moed Aleph
2001/2 Moed Aleph in English
2001/2 Moed Aleph, with solutions
2001/2 Moed Bet
2001/2 Moed Bet in English
2001/2 Moed Gimmel

PDF Versions of Files

Exercise Sets

On material of lecture 1
On material of lecture 2
On material of lecture 3
On material of lecture 4
On material of lecture 5
On material of lecture 6
On material of lectures 7,8
On material of lecture 9
On material of lecture 10

Handouts

Stirling's approximation to n!
The probability of a sample of r people all having different birthdays
Poisson as a limit of the binomial distribution
Values of the c.d.f. of the standard normal variable
The normal approximation to binomial
The normal approximation to Poisson
Expectation and variance for some standard distributions

Exams

1998/9 Moed Aleph
1998/9 Moed Bet
1999/2000 Moed Aleph
1999/2000 Moed Bet
2000/1 Moed Aleph
2000/1 Moed Aleph, with solutions
2000/1 Moed Bet
2001/2 Moed Aleph
2001/2 Moed Aleph in English
2001/2 Moed Aleph, with solutions
2001/2 Moed Bet
2001/2 Moed Bet in English
2001/2 Moed Gimmel

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