Manhattanville College

 

 

Probability                                          Prof. Lefton

Mathematics 2075                                     Fall, 2003

 

      Course Outline

 

Textbook:

         

       To be decided

 

Topics to be covered:

 

       Sets, sample spaces

       Probability axioms, sampling, and counting

       Discrete random variables

       Mean, expectation, and variance

       Special distributions - Bernoulli, geometric,

                               binomial, Poisson

       Continuous random variables

       Families of continuous distributions - normal, exponential

       Other topics if time allows

 

Requirements for course:

 

       Homework exercises

       2 tests

       Final examination

 

 

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