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REQUIRED:
Lecture Notes for Math 447 - Probability by Michael Fochler (your instructor)
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This document is work in progress and will be modified as
the course unfolds.
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Older editions of the document will eventually be deleted.
You can find them posted in reverse chronological order in this table:
2024-11-24 version
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Mostly fixes to ch.12 and 13
I cannot recollect whether some references have changed.
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2024-11-12 version
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Minor fixes + a new example in the addenda to Ch.10.
*** FINAL VERSION *** (unless emergency fixes are needed)
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2024-11-07 version
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Additions to multinomial distribution
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2024-11-02 version
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Additional fixes.
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2024-10-30 version
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Various fixes.
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2024-09-27 version
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New ch.5.5 (Independence of Random Elements) and various fixes.
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2024-09-21 version
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Fixes errors in Problem 8.1. Found by Michael Mancuso.
Reworded some items in Ch.8.2 on sampling.
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2024-09-18 version
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Fixes errors in Example 5.10. Found by Kaden Davidson.
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2024-09-10 version
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Replaces ver 2024-09-05: Some very minor fixes.
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2024-09-05 version
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Replaces ver 2024-09-03: Fixed error in Example 3.14.
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2024-09-03 version
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Major changes.
New subsections 3.4.1 and 3.4.2 have been added.
Fixed quite a few mistakes.
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2024-08-18 version
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Major changes.
Several new chapters have been added.
Discard the 2024-05-06 edition!
Do not print this version! I have planned changes to Ch.5
and subsequent chapters.
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2024-05-06 version
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First release for the Fall 2024 semester.
There will be major changes for the upcoming semester.
Do not print it (yet)! I expect to publish at least one
new release before the start of the semester.
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REQUIRED:
Mathematical Statistics with Applications 7th Edition
by Dennis Wackerly (Author), William Mendenhall (Author), Richard L. Scheaffer
(Cengage)
(the "WMS text" or just "WMS"):
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NOT required:
Cengage Webassign for WSM
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You have the option of buying an electronic version of the text that comes
with WebAssign, but as far as I know, you lose access to everything after six months
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Since WebAssign is not required, you have the option of obtaining a used version.
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Should you take Math 448 at a later time, your instructor
may use the same book and require WebAssign access to go with it.
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Optional: Linear Algebra
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If you did not (yet) take a linear algebra class
(not a requirement) and you want to know
more about matrices than what you learned in Math 323,
here is a good reference.
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The
lecture notes from Paul Dawkins on linear algebra,
available at
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs485/2006sp/LinAlg_Complete.pdf
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have the advantage that they cost nothing.
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Additional Links
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The list below is likely to grow as the semester progresses.
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Errors found in the non--MF course material:
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WMS 7Ed errors
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Sample exam problems:
Check this out:
Practice exam for midterm 1
with
solutions
. I got this exam from Prof. Weisblatt and Haines.
Ignore problem 6 (moment generating functions)!
Note that my midterm will pose much easier questions!
Also, you find a more detailed solution to #2
in the new chapter
"Sample Problems for Exams"
of my lecture notes.
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The
Instructions for the FINAL EXAM
can be found
here
. Be sure to review them!
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Formula collection for the FINAL EXAM
can be found
here
. It may undergo one or more updates.
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