John Adamski, PhD

CCNY Math 173-CD: Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Spring 2021

Course Documents and Recordings

Our course Dropbox folder contains the syllabus, class notes, recorded lectures, and other course documents.

Meetings

Use the links in the following table to join our class meetings on Zoom.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Lecture 12-1:40 pm 12-1:40 pm
Office Hours 9-10 am

Additional Resources

Schedule

Class Date Agenda
Lec 01 2/01 Welcome, 1.5 Relative Frequency Histograms
Lec 02 2/03 2.2 Measures of Center, 2.3 Measures of Variability
Lec 03 2/08 2.3 continued, 2.4 Practical Significance of Standard Deviation
Lec 04 2/10 4.2 Probility: Events and Sample Space
Lec 05 2/17 4.3 Calculating Probabilities Using Simple Events
Lec 06 2/22 4.4 Useful Counting Rules
Lec 07 2/24 4.4 continued
Lec 08 3/01 4.5 Event Relations and Probability Rules, 4.6 Conditional Probability, Independence, Mulitiplication Rule
Lec 09 3/03 4.6 continued
Lec 10 3/08 4.7 Bayes' Rule
Lec 11 3/10 4.8 Discrete Random Variables and their Probability Distributions
Lec 12 3/15 4.8 continued, 5.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution
Lec 13 3/17 Review
Lec 14 3/22 Exam 1 (1.5, 2.2-4, 4.2-8)
Lec 15 3/24 5.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution
Lec 16 4/05 6.1-3 Normal Distribution for Continuous Random Variables
Lec 17 4/07 6.1-3 continued
Lec 18 4/12 6.4 Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution
Lec 19 4/14 6.4 continued
Lec 20 4/19 7.4-5 Central Limit Theorem and Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean
Lec 21 4/21 7.6 Sampling Distribution of the Sample Proportion
Lec 22 4/26
Lec 23 4/28 Review,
Lec 24 5/03 Exam 2 (5.2, 6.1-4, 7.4-6)
Lec 25 5/05 8.3-4 Point estimation, 8.5 Interval Estimation, Project assigned
Lec 26 5/10 8.5 continued
Lec 27 5/12 9.1-3 Hypothesis Testing
Lec 28 5/17 Review
5/24 Final Exam (cumulative), 10:30am--12:45pm

Homework Assignments

SectionExercisesSolutions
1.51.19, 1.24, 1.26, 1.28Solutions
2.22.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 2.9Solutions
2.32.13, 2.16, 2.17Solutions
4.34.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.7-4.10, 4.14, 4.15Solutions
4.44.17-4.26, 4.29, 4.31, 4.32, 4.34, 4.38, 4.39Solutions
4.64.40-4.68 allSolutions
4.74.69-4.79 allSolutions
4.84.80-4.99 allSolutions
5.25.1-5.34 allSolutions
5.45.49-5.58 allSolutions
6.36.1-6.34 allSolutions
6.46.35-6.53 allSolutions
7.57.15-7.34 allSolutions
7.67.35-7.47 allSolutions
8.48.1-8.23 allSolutions
8.58.24-8.40 allSolutions
9.39.1-9.7, 9.9-9.17Solutions