MAT 407: Assignments

 

Problems are assigned on the date given, to be completed by the following class.  Please read the associated sections as well.  Feel free to work on these problems with other students and to ask questions about them in class.

 

Date assigned

Sections to read

 

Problems

10/13

2.2 Expectation

 

2.3 Mean, variance, standard deviation

 

p. 66

 

p. 75

1 – 7, 11, 13, 14

 

1, 3

10/18

2.3 (continued)

p. 75

 

4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 19

10/20

*class does not meet; read section on your own and try problems

2.5 Moment-generating functions

 

 

p. 97

 

 

1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12, 15, 19, 21

10/25

2.3 (continued)

 

2.4 The Binomial distribution

p. 75

 

p. 86

4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 19

 

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19

10/27

2.4 (continued)

 

2.5 Negative binomial and geometric distributions

 

 

p. 97

 

 

5, 9, 10, 12

 

11/1

 

2.5 Moment-generating functions

 

p. 97

 

1, 2, 3,  10, 12, 15, 19, 20, 21

 

11/3

 

2.6 Poisson distribution

 

 

p. 106

 

1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 18, 21

11/8

2.6 (continued)

 

3.3 Introduction to continuous random variables

 

 

p. 139

 

Worksheet

 

1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, 21, 26

 

11/10

 

3.4 Uniform and exponential distributions

 

 

p. 146

 

 

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 21

 

11/15

3.5 Gamma and chi-square distributions

3.6 The Normal distribution

 

p. 155

 

p. 165

1 – 5, 7, 11, 13

 

1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 23, 25, 27

11/17

Exam 2

 

 

11/22

Review of double sums and integrals
4.1 Introduction to bivariate distributions

 

 

p. 189

Handout

 

1, 3, 4, 5