CMI, Jan-Apr 2025, R Srinivasan
Hoel et al. (1996), Lecture recordings


Lecture notes

  • LEC PROB 1
    • Probability spaces, some properties of the probability measure
  • LEC PROB 2
    • More properties of the probability measure, Conditional probability
  • LEC PROB 3
    • Independent events, discrete random variables, binomial distribution, the distribution function
  • LEC PROB 4
    • Examples of probability mass distributions: Geometric, hypergeometric, negative binomial, poisson
  • LEC PROB 5
    • Random vectors, independent random variables
  • LEC PROB 6
    • Infinite sequences of Bernoulli trials, Sums of independent random variables, The probability generating function
  • LEC PROB 7
    • Expectation: Properties of expectation, moments, variance, correlation coefficient, Schwarz inequality, Chebyshev’s inequality, Weak and Strong laws of large numbers, conditional expectation
  • LEC PROB 8
    • Continuous random variables, symmetric, uniform, normal, exponential, and gamma densities.
  • LEC PROB 9
    • Expectation and moments of continuous random variables
  • LEC PROB 10
    • Distributions of sums and quotients, Characteristic functions
  • LEC PROB 11

Quizzes

TST PROB Quiz 1
TST PROB Quiz 3

Assignments

AS PROB 1
TST PROB MidsemPartB
AS PROB ClassAssignment
AS PROB 2


References

Hoel, P. G., Port, S. C., & Stone, C. J. (1996). Introduction to Probability Theory (Nachdr.). Houghton Mifflin.