M A T H   3 0 2 - Introduction to Probability
Lectures: Tue Thu Fri 10:00 - 12:00 Chemistry C124
  Wed 11:00 - 12:00 Chemistry C124

Instructor: Anna Levit

Office: Math Annex 1103

Phone: 1-604-822-4605

E-mail: anna.levit ∞ math.ubc.ca

Office Hours: Wed 1:30PM 16:30PM

Course Outline:
  1. Sample spaces, events, axioms of probability (Ch. 2)
  2. Some elementary combinatorics. Combinations and permutations (Ch. 1)
  3. Conditional probabilities, independence and Bayes Formula (Ch. 3)
  4. Discrete random variables (Ch. 4) and Continuous random variables (Ch. 5)
  5. Joint distributions, marginal distributions and conditional distributions (Ch. 6)
  6. Expectation: sums, covariance, moment generating functions (Ch. 7)
  7. Limit Theorems: weak law of large numbers, central limit theorem (Ch. 8)

You can find a course syllabus here.

Assignments:
Midterm: July 31, 10:00-11:00 Solution

Final exam: August 17, 10:00-12:30 (During the last lecture extended to 2.5 hours) Solution