Instructor: Brian Rider, Math 225, Phone: 2-6775, E-mail: firstname.lastname@colorado.edu
Lectures: MWF
Office Hours: Mon and Wed
Text: Henk Tijms' Understanding Probability (2nd edition, Cambridge).
Prerequisites: Calculus I & II, Math 2001.
Description: Introduces the basic notions of Probability: random variables, expectation, conditioning, and the standard distributions (Binomial, Poisson, Exponential, Normal). We will also cover the Law of Large Numbers and Central Limit Theorem as they apply to statistical questions: sampling from a random distribution, estimation, and hypothesis testing.
Grade: Comprised of weekly problem sets (15%),
quizzes each week (15%)
two in-class midterms (September 28th and November 6th for 20% each),
and a final (Wednesday, December 16th from 4:30 - 7:00 p.m. for 30%).
Homework assignments are listed here. To be handed in at the beginning of class on Fridays.
Late homeworks will not be accepted, though your lowest homework grade will be dropped.
Here is the schedule for the Undergraduate Resource Room (Math 175).
Some class stuff:
A table for the normal distribution; a table for the T distribution.