Math 251, Conditional Probability; Friday, 15 November 2002

R. W. DeGray, Ph.D.; Saint Joseph College

Topics

Starting Points/Questions/Assignments

Readings/References

NPR Morning Edition

" Profiles from the American West: Hispanic Politician"

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  1. Bayes' Rule
  2. Discrete Distributions
    1. Random Variable
    2. Probability Mass Functions
    3. Uniform (equally likely) distributions
    4. Hypergeometric distributions
  1. Read Independent Events: pp 96 - 100.
    1. Exercises: p 10 1; 2.4-1, 2.4-3, 2.4-5, 2.4-11
  2. Read Bayes' Theorem, pp 103 - 105.
    1. Exercises: p 106; 2.5-1
  3. Read Discrete Distributions, pp 108 - 116
    1. p 116; 3.1-1, 3.1-3, 3.1-5
  4. Read Mathematical Expectation; pp 118 - 126.
  5. E-mail: rdegray@sjc.edu
 
NPR Morning Edition; 13 November 2002

Probability, Herb McGrath, Statistical Education Resource Kit; Penn State, Department of Statistics

Statistics Glossary v1.1
Valerie J. Easton & John H. McColl

MINITAB Statistical Package

An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Feller, John Wiley & Sons,Volume I, II

Text: Probability and Statistical Inference, Hogg and Tanis