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Instructor: Sourav Chatterjee, 347 Evans Hall (office will soon change). Email: sourav@stat.berkeley.edu
Instructor office hours: Mon 11-12 at the instructor's office. Mon 2-3 at the Student Learning Center. Also by appointment.
Class schedule: MWF 10-11 in room 160, Kroeber Hall.
GSI: Jing Lei. Email: s134b@stat.berkeley.edu
GSI office hours: Mon 1-3 in 387 Evans and Wed 1-3 in 307 Evans.
SLC contact: Mike Leong. Email: mleong@berkeley.edu
Mike's office hours: MW 2-4, TTh 11-1 in room 101 Cesar Chavez.
Prerequisites: One year of calculus.
Homeworks: Due in class every Wednesday. Late homeworks will not be accepted.
[HW 1] [HW 2] [HW 3] [HW 4] [HW 5] [HW 6] [HW 7] [HW 8] [HW 9] [HW 10]
Solutions: [HW 1] All other solutions will be posted in one of the glass cases on the third floor of Evans Hall.
Midterm: Wednesday, October 18. In class.
Final exam: Tuesday, December 12, 8-11 am.
Grading: 50% on final, 40% on midterm, 10% on homeworks.
Letter grade: Based on your performance in comparison to others (that is, "graded on the curve").
Text:
Probability by J. Pitman. Publisher: McGraw-Hill.
Supplementary text: An introduction to probability theory and its applications by W. Feller. Vol. I. Publisher: Wiley.
Syllabus: Conditional expectation, independence, laws of large numbers. Discrete and continuous random variables. Central limit theorem. If time permits, random walks and/or Markov chains.
Link to official course website.
Link to instructor's homepage.