John Adamski, PhD

CCNY Math 17300-FG: Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Fall 2020

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Course Documents

Lectures

DateAgendaNotesVideo
8/26/2020Welcome, 1.5 Relative Frequency HistogramsNotesVideo
8/31/20202.2 Measures of Center, 2.3 Measures of VariabilityNotesVideo
9/2/20202.3 continued, 2.4 Practical Significance of Standard DeviationNotesVideo
9/9/20204.2 Probility: Events and Sample SpaceNotesVideo
9/14/20204.3 Calculating Probabilities Using Simple EventsNotesVideo
9/16/20204.4 Useful Counting RulesNotesVideo
9/21/20204.4 continuedNotesVideo
9/23/20204.5 Event Relations and Probability Rules, 4.6 Conditional Probability, Independence, Mulitiplication RuleNotesVideo
9/29/20204.6 continuedNotesVideo
9/30/20204.7 Bayes' RuleNotesVideo
10/5/20204.8 Discrete Random Variables and their Probability DistributionsNotesVideo
10/7/20204.8 continued, 5.2 The Binomial Probability DistributionNotesVideo
10/14/2020ReviewNotesVideo
10/19/2020Exam 1 (1.5, 2.2-4, 4.2-8)
10/21/20205.2 The Binomial Probability DistributionNotesVideo
10/26/20206.1-3 Normal Distribution for Continuous Random VariablesNotesVideo
10/28/20206.1-3 continuedNotesVideo
11/2/20206.4 Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability DistributionNotesVideo
11/4/20206.4 continuedNotesVideo
11/9/20207.4-5 Central Limit Theorem and Sampling Distribution of the Sample MeanNotesVideo
11/11/20207.6 Sampling Distribution of the Sample ProportionNotesVideo
11/16/2020Review, Practice ProblemsNotesVideo
11/18/2020Exam 2 (5.2, 6.1-4, 7.4-6)
11/23/2020 8.3-4 Point estimation, 8.5 Interval EstimationProject due 12/9NotesVideo
11/30/20208.5 continued, 8.6-7 Estimating the Difference Between two Population Means/ProportionsNotesVideo
12/2/20208.6-7 continued, 8.9 Choosing the Sample SizeNotesVideo
12/7/2020ReviewNotesVideoA
12/9/2020ReviewNotesVideo
12/14/20203:30-5:45pm, Final Exam (cumulative, taken on Blackboard, notes submitted as a single pdf to a provided Dropbox link).

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
8.68.41-8.53 allSolutions
8.78.54-8.66 allSolutions
8.98.70-8.73, 8.75-8.77, 8.79-8.83Solutions