MTH207-A Fall 2013 Lecture Material

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4


Week 4

DateTopicDescription
10/3/2013Bayes theorem in-class exercise Group 1 - Red Line problem tree diagram.
Bayes theorem in-class exercise Group 2 - Urn problem.
Bayes theorem in-class exercise Group 3 - Urn problem.
Bayes theorem in-class exercise Group 4 - Red line problem Braintree conditional probability.
Bayes theorem in-class exercise Group 5 - Red line problem Mattapan conditional probability.
Bayes theorem in-class exercise Group 6 - Urn problem.


Week 3

DateTopicDescription
9/16/2013Law of total probability Computing an unconditional probability from a set of conditional probabilities on a series of mutually exclusive events, one of which has to occur.
9/16/2013Conditional probability Conditional probability definition and example.




Week 2

DateTopicDescription
9/16/2013Cumulative binomial probabilities: pbinom The pbinom(k,n,p) R function.
9/16/2013Tree diagrams Tree diagrams, a useful way to keep track of outcomes and probabilities. The dbinom(k,n,p) R function.
9/16/2013Bernoulli trials and binomial experiments Definition and examples of the Bernoulli and binomial experiments
9/16/2013Events Definition and examples of events. An event is a subset of a sample space.




Week 1

DateTopicDescription
9/2/2013Experiments, outcomes, and tree diagrams Definitions of "experiment", "outcome", and "sample space". Introduction to tree diagrams.



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