Homework

Homework 1

January 12, 2016

Ash, pp. 23-25, Exercise #1 + all prime numbered exercises.

Grinstead and Snell, pp. 35-40: Exercises 7,8,9,15,31 

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Homework 2:

January 19, 2016

Read GS Chapter 2:

 Continuous probability distributions

 Exercises:  P. 71, 1,4,7,8,13

 

Read GS Chapter 3 (combinatorics review)  OK to skip 3.3 unless you’re really intrigued by card shuffling, it is long and involved.

 Exercises: GS Page 114:  8, 19,32 

 

Read GS Chapter 4  up to page 141.(Conditional Probability)

  Exercises:  GS Page 150: 2,3,27,38,43

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Homework 3:

 

Read G+S Chapter 2 (Continuous Distributions)

5.1 (Important Distributions)

4.1 and 4.2  (Conditional Probabilities) (ignore beta distributions)

 

Problems:

All are in Grinstead and Snell:

Pp. 71-75, Probs. 5,8,12,13

pp. 172, Prob. 2

pp. 197-200 1,14,16,24,28

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Homework 4

Reading:  Ash, Sections 3.4, 3.5, 4.3, Grinstead and Snell Chapter 6

Problems:

Ash:  

p.121, Prob. 1

p. 124, Prob. 6

p. 139, Prob. 1

p. 140, Prob. 4

 

Grinstead and Snell p. 279-282

Probs. 9, 10, 11, 17

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Homework 5

Read Grinstead and Snell Sections 12.2, 11.1 and 11.2

(you can skip over generating function discussion in 12.2)

G+S, page  492: Problems 10 and 11

G+S, page 413-415, Problems 2,7, 11,12 

G+S, page 424, Problems 4,13, 15

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Homework 6

Read Grinstead and Snell Chapter 11 except 11.4

p. 422, Problems 5, 6, 8

P. 442, Problems 1, 2, 5, 12

p. 466: Prolems 2,6