Statistics 430/510--Summer Session I (May 20-June 27)

Class time: M T W Th

Instructor: Lisha Chen

         Office: 414.2 Huntsman Hall

         Email: lisha@wharton.upenn.edu

         Office Hours: Mon

Textbook: Sheldon Ross, A First Course in Probability, Sixth Edition

Homework: Homework will be assigned once a week and will be due every Tuesday.

Exam: Midterm: June 9^th, Monday, Regular Class Time (Ch 1-5)

Final (Comprehensive):

Grade allocation: Homework: 20%

Midterm: 30%

Final: 50% 

Topics and Schedule:

Ch1-8 will be covered.

First week (May 20- May 22) Ch1-3 Combinatory Analysis, Axioms of Probability, Conditional Probability and independence

Second Week (May 26- May 29) Ch4 Random Variables

Third Week (June 2- June 5) Ch5 Continuous Random Variabls

Forth Week: June 9^th Midterm

          June 10-12 Ch6 Jointly Distributed Random Variables

Fifth Week: June 16 Ch6

          June 17-19 Ch7 Properties of Expectation

Sixth Week: June 23-25 Ch8 Limit Theorems

          June 26 Review