Sunday, June 24, 2012

Lecture Schedule - Continuous Probability Distribution


Lecture
Date
Topic
Exercise
1
25/6/201
Monday
16.1 Continuous random variable
- concept of a continuous random variable
Exercise 8.1
2
26/6/2012
Tuesday
16.2 Probability density function
- relationship between the probability density function and the cumulative distribution function
Exercise 8.2
3
27/6/2012
Wednesday
16.3 Mathematical Expectation
- Concept
- a few basic formulae
- mean and variance of a continuous random variable
Ex 8.4
Ex 8.5 (Q1-12)


4
4/7/2012
Wednesday
- solve problems which are modeled with appropriate density functions (uniform distribution & negative exponential distribution.
Ex 8.5 (Q13-21)
Ex 8.6
Tutorial 26
5
9/7/2012
Monday
16.4 The normal distribution
- standardize a normal variable
- normal distribution table
Ex 8.7
6
10/7/2012
Tuesday
           - Problems involving the normal distribution

Ex 8.8 & 8.9
7
11/7/2012      
Wednesday
       -   Linear combination of two independent normal distribution
Ex 8.10
8
16/7/2012
Monday 
      - The normal distribution as an approximation to the binomial distribution
Ex 8.11
Tutorial 27

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