Instructor: Vahan Huroyan
Email: vahan (dot) huroyan (at) slu (dot) edu
Section Time: MWF 15:10 - 16:00
Section Room: Ritter Hall, 323
Office Hours: Ritter Hall 113:
Course Syllabus: [here]
Textbook: Introduction to Probability, Second Eddition, by Jessica Hwang and Joseph K. Blitzstein.
Extra Reading: Introduction to Probability, by David F. Anderson, Benedek Valkó, Timo Seppäläinen.
Announcements:
Lecture 1, Aug. 21: Sample spaces, set theory overview (Section 1.2)
Lecture 2, Aug. 23: Counting (Section 1.3)
Lecture 3, Aug. 26: Counting (Section 1.4)
Lecture 4, Aug. 28: Probability spaces, probability function (Sections 1.6)
Lecture 5, Aug. 30 : Properties of probability, inclusion exclusion theorem (Section 1.6)
Lecture 6, Sep. 4: Conditional probability (Section 2.2)
Lecture 7, Sep. 6: Conditional probability, examples (Section 2.2)
Lecture 8, Sep. 9: Bayes' rule, the low of total probability (Sections 2.3, 2.5)
Lecture 9, Sep. 11: Independence of events (Section 2.5)
Lecture 10, Sep. 13: Examples, conditional independence (Section 2.5)
Lecture 11, Sep. 16: Independence of a collection of events, examples (Section 2.7)
Homework:
HW 1: posted 09/02, due 09/13 ----