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: Florent Boxus, Maxence de la Brassinne, Norina Schrooten
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 | Description |
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Tue 06/02 (starting at 3:30pm) |
0. Overview
[slides]
1. Probability and counting [slides] 2. Conditional probability and Bayes' rule [slides] |
Tue 13/02 | No class (Mardi Gras) |
Tue 20/02 | Exercises 1 [list] |
Tue 27/02 | 3. Discrete random variables [slides] |
Tue 05/03 | Exercises 2 [list] |
Tue 12/03 | 4. Continuous random variables [slides] |
Tue 19/03 | Exercises 3 [list] |
Tue 26/03 | 5. Joint distributions [slides, podcast part 1, part 2 (only 6 first minutes)] |
Wed 02/04 | Exercises 4 [list] |
Tue 09/04 | 6. Conditional expectation [slides] |
Tue 16/04 | Exercises 5 [list] |
Tue 23/04 | No class (Easter holidays) |
Tue 30/04 | No class (Easter holidays) |
Tue 07/05 |
7. Transformations
[slides]
8. Inequalities and limit theorems [slides] |
Tue 14/05 | Exercises 6 [list] |
Book

Joseph K. Blitzstein and Jessica Hwang
Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2nd edition, 2019
(freely viewable from authors website)
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