STATISTICS 418.001: Probability and Stochastic Processes

Meeting Time and Place

MWF 9:05-9:55AM, 360 Willard

Contact Information

Send email to Dr. Michael Akritas mga@stat.psu.edu

Office: 414 Thomas Building; Tel: 865-3631.

Office hours: T 12:30-1:30PM, Th 10:45-11:45AM.

Send email to Junli Lin jul268@psu.edu

Office: 301 Thomas Building; Tel: 863-2314

Office hours: M 10:15-11:00AM, Th 2:20-3:50PM.

Important Course Information

• For information about the material to be covered, the homework policy, the exam policy and the exam dates see the syllabus:

Course Syllabus

Quiz Dates

• Quiz 1: Friday, 24 Feb. Will cover homeworks 1-5 plus Quiz 1 Instructions
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Some Tables

• Binomial, Poisson, Normal,

R Tutorials

• R Intro , Basic Graphics ,

Lecture Presentations

• Chapter 1, Chapter 2,

Homework Solutions

• HW 1 , HW 2 ,

Homework Assignments

Homework #1: 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.4, 1.6.4, 1.6.5 Due Friday, 20 Jan.

Homework #2: 1.5.1, 1.5.3, 1.5.6, 1.6.7, 1.7.2, 1.7.5, 1.7.7, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.10.1 Due Friday, 27 Jan.

Homework #3: 2.2.4, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.4.1, 2.5.3, 2.8.1,2.8.2, 2.8.10 Due Friday, 3 Feb.

Homework #4: 2.6.1, 2.6.6, 2.7.5, 2.7.6, 2.9.1, 2.9.4, 2.9.6 [Hint: 1 + p + p^2 +...+ p^n = (1-p^(n+1))/(1-p)], Due Friday, 10 Feb.