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Final exam schedule (according to schedule.berkeley.edu): Monday, December 18, 2006. 5 - 8 pm. Location: 4 Leconte.
Please bring a blue book, a calculator, and up to three pages of notes for the final.
Practice problems: [1] [2] [3]
Solutions: [1]
Instructor: Sourav Chatterjee, 347 Evans Hall (office will soon change). Email: sourav@stat.berkeley.edu
Instructor office hours: Fri 1-3 at the instructor's office. Also by appointment.
Class schedule: MWF 12-1 in room 3108, Etcheverry Hall.
GSI: Jonathan Grib. Email: grib@stat.berkeley.edu
GSI office hours: TBA.
Prerequisites: Two years of calculus and one semester of linear algebra.
Homeworks: Due in class every Monday. Late homeworks will not be accepted. [Link]
Midterm: Wednesday, October 18. In class.
Final exam: Monday, December 18, 5-8 pm.
Grading: 70% on final, 30% on midterm.
Letter grade: Based on your performance in comparison to others (that is, "graded on the curve").
Text:
Weighing the odds by D. Williams. Publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Syllabus: Probability spaces, random variables, distributions in probability and statistics, central limit theorem, characteristic functions, maximum likelihood estimation. If time permits, Markov chains, martingales, Poisson processes.
Currently discussing: Chapters 2 and 3 from the text.
Link to official course website.
Link to instructor's homepage.