Announcements

May 2: To see your final exam and to go over its solution, either stop by the instructor's office (HAAS 118) 1-3pm on Thursday, May 3, or make an appointment.
May 2: Final exams have been graded, and all of the scores and the resulting grades have been posted on Blackboard Vista.

Apr 27: Solutions for homework 12 have been uploaded to BlackBoard Vista.
Apr 23: Additional office hours have been added before the Final Exam. They are on Thursday, April 26, 10am-noon. The office hours on Monday, April 30 would also be 10am-noon instead of 3:30-4:30pm.
Apr 23: Scores and statistics for quiz 4 has been posted on Blackboard Vista. Please make sure to go over the solutions (also posted there).
Apr 20: Solutions to homework 11 and quiz 4 have been posted to BlackBoard Vista.
Apr 17: For students who did better on Exam 1 than Exam 2, I will allow to replace the score for Exam 2 by (Score on Exam 1 + Final Exam Score)/3 if the latter is greater.
Apr 17: Please fill out the student evaluations!
Apr 17: List of topics for the final exam posted.
Apr 17: Practice final exam (with solutions) has been posted on the practice page.
Apr 13: Solution to homework 10 has been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Apr 12: Practice quiz 4 (with solutions) has been posted on the practice page.
Apr 12: Homework 12 has been posted, due on Friday, April 27, 2012 at 3:20pm.
Apr 12: Homework 11 has been posted, due on Friday, April 20, 2012 at 3:20pm.
Apr 11: Problem Th 6.8 on homework 10 was assigned by mistake. You do not have to turn it in.
Apr 9: A worked out convolution example mentioned in the first course section (but not finished) posted.
Apr 9: Scores and solutions for Exam 2 have been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Apr 2: Homework 10 has been posted, due on Friday, April 13, 2012 at 3:20pm.

Mar 28: Quiz 3 has been graded, and the scores are posted on Blackboard Vista.
Mar 26: Solution to quiz 3 has been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Mar 23: Solution to homework 8 has been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Mar 20: Practice exam 2 (with solutions) has been posted on the practice page. This is a practice exam; it does not have problems on all of the topics which may be covered on the actual exam, and it is designed to give you an idea of the level of difficulty of the exam. The exam will cover chapters 4, 5, 6.1-2 and 6.4-5 of the textbook (Ross) plus the material on medians.
Mar 20: Homework 9 has been posted, due on Monday, April 2, 2012 at 3:20pm.
Mar 20: Quiz 3 will primarily cover the special discrete and continuous random variables, and the transformations of a single random variable (chapters 4 and 5 of the textbook, mainly Sections 4.6-4.8 and 5.3-5.7). Please make sure to bring your calculators with you as you may need them to use with the standard normal CDF tables.
Mar 19: Lectures on Friday, March 30 are cancelled to compensate for the evening Exam 2.
Mar 11: Practice quiz 3 (with solutions) has been posted on the practice page.
Mar 9: Solution to homework 7 is posted on Blackboard Vista.
Mar 9: Homework 8 has been posted, due on Friday, March 23, 2012 at 3:20pm.
Mar 8: During Wednesday's lecture, I incorrectly specified the support for a hypergeometric random variable as . The correct support should be . The reason why possible values of should start at is because the number of white balls in the urn () may be too small to have no black balls in the draw. To guarantee at least white balls in the draw, one needs to have at least white balls in the urn, thus .
Mar 1: Homework 7 has been posted, due on Friday, March 9, 2012 at 3:20pm.

Feb 28: Grades for quiz 2 have been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Feb 27: Solution to quiz 2 has been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Feb 21: Important: Our final exam will take place on Monday, April 30, 2012, 7-9pm in ARMS 1010.
Feb 21: Homework 6 has been posted, due on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 3:20pm.
Feb 21: Practice quiz 2 (with solutions) has been posted on the practice page.
Feb 20: Handout on the quantiles, medians, and modes has been uploaded to Blackboard Vista.
Feb 20: As mentioned in class, your score on exam 1 will be replaced by (your score on exam 2 + final exam score)/3 if the latter is greater.
Feb 20: Scores for exam 1 have been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Feb 16: Solution to midterm 1 has been posted.
Feb 12: Solutions and scores for homework 4 have been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Feb 10: Homework 5 has been posted, due on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 3:20pm.
Feb 8: Practice exam 1 (with solutions) has been posted on the practice page.
Feb 8: Solution to homework 3 had an unfortunate typo in the inequality for problem Th 3.1. The solution has been fixed and reposted.
Feb 3: Solution to homework 3 has been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Feb 2: Homework 4 has been posted, due on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:20pm.
Feb 2: Lectures on Friday, February 24 are cancelled to compensate for the evening Exam 1.

Jan 30: Solutions for quiz 1 have been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Jan 29: Grades for homework 2 have been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Jan 27: Homework 3 has been posted, due on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 3:20pm.
Jan 25: Practice quiz 1 (with solutions) has been posted on the practice page.
Jan 23: Scores for homework 1 have been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Jan 21: Solution to homework 1 has been posted on Blackboard Vista.
Jan 19: Homework 2 posted, due on Friday, January 27, 2012 at 3:20pm.
Jan 8: Homework 1 posted, due on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 3:20pm.
Jan 4: Evening exams scheduled for Thursday, February 16 and Thursday, April 5, both for 6:30-7:30pm in 104 Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry (WTHR). Please let the instructor know ASAP if you have a conflict. One lecture will be cancelled (TBA) in each section for each exam.