Elements of probability calculus
MATH0062-1, University of Liège, Spring
Instructors: Lecturer: Pierre Sacré Teaching assistants: Anaëlle De Worm, Antoine Evens, Christian Fernandez Lorden Student teaching assistants: Arthur de Landsheere, Arnaud Innaurato, Lucie Lejeune
Lectures: Tuesdays, 3:45pm-5:45pm (roll a dice or check CELCAT for location)
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Schedule and materials
Slides are made available as the semester progresses.
This tentative schedule is subject to change.
Review session on counting and sets [podcast, slides].
Date | 1:45pm-3:45pm | 3:45pm-5:45pm |
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Tue 04/02 |
0. Overview
[slides]
1. Probability and counting [slides] 2. Conditional probability and Bayes' rule [slides] |
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Tue 11/02 | Exercises 1 [list] | |
Tue 18/02 | 3. Discrete random variables [slides] | |
Tue 25/02 | Exercises 2 [list] | |
Tue 04/03 | No class (Mardi Gras) | No class (Mardi Gras) |
Tue 11/03 | 4. Continuous random variables [slides] | |
Tue 18/03 | Exercises 3 [list] | |
Tue 25/03 | 5. Joint distributions [slides] | |
Wed 01/04 | Exercises 4 [list] | |
Tue 08/04 | 6. Conditional expectation [slides] | |
Tue 15/04 | Exercises 5 [list] |
7. Transformations
[slides]
8. Inequalities and limit theorems [slides] |
Tue 22/04 | No class (Easter holidays) | No class (Easter holidays) |
Tue 29/04 | No class (Easter holidays) | No class (Easter holidays) |
Tue 06/05 | Exercises 6 [list] | ?? |
Tue 13/05 | ?? | ?? |
Book
Joseph K. Blitzstein and Jessica Hwang
Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2nd edition, 2019
(freely viewable from authors website)
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