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