Stat 6401: Advanced Probability I

Week 10:

• Read about Order Statistics: orderstat.pdf 
• Simulation program to plot the joint distribution of the min and max from samples of size n from the standard normal distribution.  orderstat.ssc    orderstat.r
• Final review: Final.doc
• The homework solutions for homework 7 have been posted on Blackboard under Course Documents.  (If for some reason you can't log into Blackboard please send me an email.)

Holiday

Hello everyone,

Since the 6601 class will have a reading assignment and will not be holding a formal lecture period I have decided in hopes of getting over my cold we will do the same.

Tomorrow I will post my notes on Order Statistics which everyone should read. The last homework had a problem or two on this topic.

Then for next week please read over Ch 7 and start the last homework from Ch 7.  This assignment will be collected at the final.

The College of Science linux servers will be down from 8pm Wednesday November 24th to 8pm Friday November 26th for software upgrade. So the class website will not be available during those time. Please download the take-home project from the midterm which I will collect on Monday.

I will be on campus in the afternoon tomorrow and until about 6:30 tomorrow. If anyone plans to come by please let me know via email. For anyone that doesn't get this email I will be there to answer questions about anything of interest.

Happy Holiday and see you Monday.

Prof. Suess

Week 9:

• Midterm 2 will be given in class today.
• The take-home part of the midterm. 
  • Run the parts of the following S-Plus programs to verify and visualize the answers to the questions on the in-class midterm.
  • Print out all of the plots and comment on each plot.
  • S-Plus: takehome2.ssc
  • R: takehome2.r
  • Note if you are using S-Plus and are having problems seeing the graphs.  Make sure your Options for graphs is set to Every Graph.  To do this click on Options > Graph Options ... then on the right side of the Options tab under Traditional Graphics make sure the Auto Pages: is set to Every Graph.  This will print out one picture for every graph called.
  • Note if you run this in R, to make the the random multivariate normal function run, rmvnorm( ), you will need to download the Library mvtorm.  To do this first click on the R Console, then click on Packages > Install Packages from CRAN... find mvtnorm, select it and then click OK.  This should install the package.
• Wednesday we will go over Order Statistics and discuss Expectation and Variance.  Notes will be posted online for this lecture.

Week 8:

• Homework 7 has been posted, due on Nov. 29.
• Midterm 2 will be next week on Monday Nov. 22.  Ch 4, 5, 6, 10 Sections 1,2,3  Midterm.doc
• Homework 6 due date has been extended to Nov. 22 so everyone will have a chance to study the material.  A solution will be posted this week.
• The homework solutions for homework 4, 5, and 6 have been posted on Blackboard under Course Documents.  (If for some reason you can't log into Blackboard please send me an email.)

Week 7:

• Homework 6 has been posted.
• A suggested reading has been given for those interested in Bioinformatics.

Week 6:

• Midterm returned.

Week 5:

• Midterm 1 on Monday.
• Homework 5 has been posted.

Week 4:

• Homework 4 has been posted.
• The homework solutions for homework 1, 2, and 3 have been posted on Blackboard under Course Documents.  (If for some reason you can't log into Blackboard please send me an email.)
• As review for the midterm study the homework problems that were assigned and work similar problems from the Self-Test Problems and Exercises from the end of each chapter.  (Study the Matching Problem and the bridge problems.)

Week 3:

• Homework 3 has been posted.
• Take-home quiz.  The programs will run in either Splus or R. Midterm1TakeHome.pdf  beeswax.dat
• CHANGE IN DATE: Midterm 1 will be give on Monday Oct. 25, 2004.

Week 2:

• Here is the link the Birthday Problem posted by Prof. Trumbo.
• Homework 2 has been posted.

Week 1:

• Welcome to Graduate Probability I.  This course will cover probability theory and applications.  The book we will be using is by Ross, A First Course in Probability, 6th Ed.
• This week we discussed the basic probability rule, conditional probability, combinatorics, and probability simulation.
• Homework 1 will be posted this week.
• The handouts from class have been posted under the Handouts link above.  I have added an introduction to S-Plus handout that should be useful in getting started with R also.  The papers I mentioned have been placed on Blackboard under Documents.
• If you are interested in downloading the software program R see the Statistics Software link above.  Go to the R-project website, click on CRAN under Downloads, select a site to download from, select Windows, then base, and then rw****.exe. Then install.

Week 0:

• The required book for the class will be Ross, A First Course in Probability, 6th Ed.
• There are three optional books that might be considered extra reading in areas of application.
  • Ewens and Grant, Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics, An Introduction
  • Carne, Telecommunications Topics: Applications of Functions & Probabilities in Electrical Communications
  • Carne, Telecommunications Preimer: Data, Voice, and Video Communications